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The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 2:5

Proverbs 2:5Find the knowledge of God.The benefits of religionReligion, whether natural or revealed, has always the same beneficial influence on the mind. In youth, in health and prosperity, it awakens feelings of gratitude and sublime love, and purifies at the same time that which it exalts; but it is in misfortune, in sickness, in age, that its effects are more truly and beneficially felt; when submission is cherished in faith and humble trust in the Divine will, when duties become pleasures,... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 2:6

Proverbs 2:6For the Lord giveth wisdom. The fountain of wisdomI. That God is the only fountain of all true wisdom. Men say that the Deity is not the only source of it, but that much of it may be attained by a converse with beings most opposite to Him, even with wicked and reprobate spirits. Such were the oracles and gods of the Gentiles, which the wisest men among them, not excepting Socrates himself, consulted, to learn of them how to set about and manage their most weighty affairs. Their... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 2:7

Proverbs 2:7He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous.Good men and their GodI. The character of good men.1. They are spoken of as the “righteous.” The moral code of the universe may be reduced to two words: “Be just.” Be just to yourselves, to others, and to God. Virtue, morality, and religion constitute a righteous man.2. They are spoken of as “walking uprightly.” Goodness in all moral creatures is not stationary, but progressive.3. They are spoken of as “saints.” They are consecrated to... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 2:11

Proverbs 2:11Discretion shall preserve thee. HumilityThis is the first sought and last won of the Christian graces. Such are the difficulties in the acquisition of humility that it is but seldom really found. It is a common want of the present day. See the ordinary courtesy of modern society. See the special snare in intellectual careers. In both of these provinces of life especial discouragement has been given during the recent period to the growth in us of true humility.I. Abjectness is not... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 2:12

Proverbs 2:12To deliver thee from the way of the evil man. Wickedness and wisdom, the bane and the antidoteI. A terrible description of wicked persons.1. Their character. Their speech is corrupt. Their habit is corrupt. Their heart is corrupt. Their influence is corrupt.2. Their peril. The spell of lust palsies the grasp of her victims. Everything dies under the influence of wickedness--self- respect, spiritual sensibility, mental freedom, the freshness, the vigour, and the beauty of life.3.... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 2:16

Proverbs 2:16To deliver thee from the strange woman.Sensual temptationGaze not on beauty too much, lest it blast thee; nor too long, lest it blind thee; nor too near lest it burn thee. If thou like it, it deceives thee; if thou love it, it disturbs thee; if thou hunt after it, it destroys thee. If virtue accompany it, it is the heart’s paradise; if vice associate it, it is the fool’s purgatory. It is the wise man’s bonfire, and the fool’s furnace. (Quarles.)The enticement of womenThe... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 2:17

Proverbs 2:17Which forsaketh the guide of her youth. The peril of taking life into our own controlWe all shrink with horror from that lowest depth of human depravity here described; but we may not therefore lose the lessons of this solemn and masterly description. Forsaking and forgetting God is the one danger of life; forsaking that guidance which is from Him and leads to Him, and forgetting that covenant which binds us unto Him. The course of degradation and mischief of the unhappy person... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 2:20

Proverbs 2:20Walk in the way of good men. The true way of walkingHere is the general application of the counsels of the chapter for the good that will come to those that avoid the society of evil men and women.I. Men cannot walk in good ways unless they leave the bad ones. Because good and evil being contraries, the one will keep out the other: as cold keeps out heat, and heat cold. Evil thoughts keep out all thoughts of good.II. It is not enough to avoid evil, we must actually do good. Because... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 2:22

Proverbs 2:22Transgressors shall be rooted out of it.The present punishments of evil menThe metaphor “rooted out” is taken from a tree. If a wild tree and offensive grow in a garden, and the gardener cut off the top of it, if it send forth new sprouts, as bad as the former, he digs up the root itself. So doth God deal with wicked men. He takes them away, and if their posterity follow their courses, He proceeds to root out the whole name and family.I. God will sometimes in this world put a... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 2:1

Pro 2:1 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; Ver. 1. My son. ] Fatherly and filial affection ought to be between teacher and hearers. "But who is their father?" 1Sa 10:12 "O my father, my father," said he to the dying prophet. 2Ki 13:14 "Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest," said that idolatrous Micah to the wandering Levite. Jdg 17:10 Popish novices do so observe their padres (as they call them), that though they command them a voyage to... read more

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 2:5

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The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 2:7

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 2:11

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 2:12

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 2:16

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The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 2:20

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 2:22

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 2:1

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