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Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Proverbs 8:17-21

CRITICAL NOTES.—Proverbs 8:17. Early, i.e., “earnestly” (see on ch. Proverbs 1:28). Proverbs 8:18. Durable. Zöckler thinks this rather signifies “growing.” Proverbs 8:21. Inherit substance, “abundance.” MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Proverbs 8:17-21THE REWARD OF EARNEST SEEKERSI. The mutual love which exists between Wisdom and her children. There is always a mutual love between a true teacher and a diligent, receptive pupil, and the love on each side has a reflex influence on both master... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Proverbs 8:22-31

CRITICAL NOTES.—Proverbs 8:22. Jehovah possessed me. The signification of this verb has been the subject of much discussion; ancient expositors, believing Wisdom here to be the eternal Son of God, deemed it necessary to reject the translation of the Septuagint, etc., who rendered it created, as the text then became an argument with Arians against the eternal co-existence of the Son. But most modern commentators, whatever view they take of the signification of “Wisdom,” agree in rejecting the... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Proverbs 8:32-36

CRITICAL NOTES.—Proverbs 8:36. Sinneth against, “misseth,” so Stuart, Delitzsch, and Miller.MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH—Proverbs 8:32-36EXHORTATION FOUNDED ON HUMAN OBLIGATIONS TO DIVINE WISDOMI. Because Christ, the Eternal Wisdom, has manifested His sympathy with man, we are under obligations to come into sympathy with Him. A man who has manifested his sympathy with, and delight in, another’s welfare by most substantial acts of benevolence and self-denial, has taken the most reasonable... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Proverbs 8:14

Proverbs 8:14 Consider (1) the self-assertion of Christ; (2) the bearing of that self-assertion on certain difficulties of our day. I. The self-assertion of Christ is exhibited in three ways: (1) Christ claims a boundless power of satisfying human wants. He knows sin and sorrow through and through. Yet He never doubts His capacity of giving pardon and peace. (2) Christ claims for Himself the most transcendent ideals. The sun is not too glorious for Him: "I am the Light of the world. The morning... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Proverbs 8:17

Proverbs 8:17 I. "I love them that love Me." It might be inferred from such words as these, that man must love God as a preliminary to or condition of God's loving man. But the truth is that our love to God is nothing else but the reflection of God's love to us; in no way an earthly production, but is heavenly every way birth, nurture, end, and aim. God must first love us, so as not merely to surround us with mercies, not merely to make arrangements which render possible our salvation; but so... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Proverbs 8:22-30

Proverbs 8:22-30 This is a description of the original solitude of God by a witness, His only-begotten and well-beloved Son. I. This solitude was serene and happy. Even among men solitude is not always desolation. To make solitude happy two elements are required: first, that the mind be at ease and satisfied with itself; secondly, that it be employed also in some object out of itself. The serenity of God was, so to speak, composed of three elements: perfect self-satisfaction, profound... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Proverbs 8:23-25

Proverbs 8:23-25 Wisdom meant more to the Jews than to us, who have lost the sense of man's unity by subdividing his faculties. It embraced to the Jew the mental and material range of the spiritual life: the ministers and magicians of Pharaoh are wise; so are Solomon and the angels; but also, "the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom," and the wise man is the ideally good man in Proverbs 16:21 , Proverbs 16:23 . I. Wisdom is ever at work in the world. Civilisation is nature inspired by... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Proverbs 8:29-30

Proverbs 8:29-30 I. It is in the active service of life, in the work of the marketplace, in the interchange of thought and the collision of minds differently constituted, that wisdom speaks to us. She comes as with an evangel, which she proclaims to all, which shuts out none but those who shut it out, seeking in her infinite compassion the ignorant and the foolish. II. Wisdom yearns, as it were, for human sympathy, and the wide spaces of the universe would seem dark and cold to her if man were... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Proverbs 8:36

Proverbs 8:36 Who is the "Me"? It is Wisdom. Who is the Wisdom? It is Christ; Christ is the Wisdom of God. What is the particular truth of the text? It is this, that sin is not only an offence to God, whom no man hath seen or can see, but it is a distinct and irreparable injury to the man, the sinner himself. It may be difficult to show men that they ought not to sin against a being whom they have never seen, or against spiritual, moral laws which they had no share in determining. Man may,... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Proverbs 8:17

DISCOURSE: 769ADDRESS PREPARATORY TO CONFIRMATIONProverbs 8:17. I love them that love me; and those that seek me early, shall find me.THESE are the words of our blessed Lord [Note: ver. 22–31.], who, under the name of Widom, addresses himself to the children of men [Note: ver. 4, 5.], and urges them to receive instruction from him [Note: ver. 32, 33.]. But to the young they are more particularly directed: and it is for their encouragement more especially that I have selected them for our... read more

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Proverbs 8:17-21

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Proverbs 8:22-31

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Proverbs 8:32-36

Sermon Bible Commentary - Proverbs 8:14

Sermon Bible Commentary - Proverbs 8:17

Sermon Bible Commentary - Proverbs 8:22-30

Sermon Bible Commentary - Proverbs 8:23-25

Sermon Bible Commentary - Proverbs 8:29-30

Sermon Bible Commentary - Proverbs 8:36

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Proverbs 8:17

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