John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 1:25
But ye have set at nought all my counsel ,.... The same with "the counsel of God", Acts 20:27 . The whole Gospel, and all the truths of it; the entire scheme of salvation by Jesus Christ, which is the produce of divine wisdom, and is according to the counsel of the divine will, and his eternal purpose in Christ Jesus; this the Jews set at nought, made no account of, but despised and rejected, as they did Christ, the author of it, Acts 4:11 ; as also his ordinances, which go by the same... read more
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 1:24
Because I have called, and ye refused ,.... This is to be understood not of the internal call of Wisdom, or Christ, which is by the special grace of his Spirit; is according to an eternal purpose, the fruit of everlasting love, peculiar to God's elect, and by a divine power; and is also a call to special blessings of grace, and to eternal glory; and which is always effectual, unchangeable, and irreversible, and can never be refused, rejected, and resisted, so as to become void and of no... read more