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The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 12:7

Proverbs 12:7But the house of the righteous shall stand. Virtuous kindredI. In the first place, the circumstance of belonging to the house of the righteous, is a great security that the early principles which so commonly decide the character of the man, have been the subjects of a judicious and anxious attention. The child of such a house cannot have been left to collect from the chance companions of after-life those important truths upon the knowledge of which so much depends.II. It is a... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 12:8

Proverbs 12:8A man shall be commended according to his wisdom. Appreciation better than praiseThere are persons in this world--and the pity is that there are not more of them--who care less for praise than for appreciation. They have an ideal after which they are striving, but of which they consciously fall short, as every one who has a lofty ideal is sure to do. When that ideal is recognised by another, and they are praised or commended for something--let that something be important or not--in... read more

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The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 12:9

Proverbs 12:9He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.Domestic modesty and displayVanity, or love of display, is one of the most contemptible and pernicious passions that can take possession of the human mind. Its roots are self-ignorance, its fruits are affectation and falsehood. The text refers to this in families, and when it takes possession of households it often destroys domestic comforts.I. There are domestic comforts without... read more

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The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 12:10

Proverbs 12:10A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast. The sin of cruelty to animalsFirst remove some prejudices against dealing with this subject.1. This is a trifling subject, which is unworthy of being made a matter of grave and deliberate consideration. But if this subject constitute a matter of moral and religious obligation at all, it is not to be thrust out of view because it is not of the most universal and commanding importance. It belongs to the great duty of mercy, and... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 12:3

Pro 12:3 A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved. Ver. 3. A man shall not be established by wickedness. ] For he lays his foundation upon firework, and brimstone is scattered upon his house top: if the fire of God from heaven but flash upon it, it will be all a flame immediately. He walks all day upon a mine of gunpowder; and hath God with his armies ready to run upon the thickest bosses of his buckler, and to hurl him to hell. How can... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 12:4

Pro 12:4 A virtuous woman [is] a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed [is] as rottenness in his bones. Ver. 4. A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband. ] Heb., A valiant woman; an able housewife, such as Bathsheba commends to her son, Pro 31:10-31 and as Paul describes. Tit 2:4-5 She is said to be a crown to her husband - not a ring for his finger, or a chain of gold for his neck, but a crown or garland for his head, a chief and choice ornament, as Sarah was to Abraham, as... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 12:5

Pro 12:5 The thoughts of the righteous [are] right: [but] the counsels of the wicked [are] deceit. Ver. 5. The thoughts of the righteous are right. ] He feeds his thoughts upon the best objects, those especially mentioned in that little Bible, Philippians 4:8 , "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 12:6

Pro 12:6 The words of the wicked [are] to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. Ver. 6. The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood. ] As they think not, so neither speak they the language of the righteous. "Ye are the light of the world"; Mat 5:14 and because the light stands in the light of their wicked ways, as the angel in Balaam’s way to his sin, therefore they hate the saints; and, as all hatred is bloody, seek their lives, mixing cruelty with... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 12:7

Pro 12:7 The wicked are overthrown, and [are] not: but the house of the righteous shall stand. Ver. 7. The wicked are overthrown, and are not. ] Say that the righteous cannot prevail by their apologies for themselves and others, God will take the matter into his own hand, and avenge them, Luk 18:7 as he did the primitive Christians and the French Protestants, upon their merciless persecutors. “ Tu, vero, Herodes sanguinolente, time. ” As Beza warned Charles IX, author of the massacre. But... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 12:8

Pro 12:8 A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised. Ver. 8. A man shall be commended according to his wisdom. ] And all wisdom consists in this, Ut Deum quis cognoscat et colat, saith Lactantius; - That a man rightly know and worship God. This did not Apollonius, whom yet Philostratus commendeth, that he was non doctus, sed natus sapiens, not instructed, but born wise. See the contrary, Job 11:12 . Nor Archimedes, who yet had the... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 12:3

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