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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 1:20-33

Solomon, having shown how dangerous it is to hearken to the temptations of Satan, here shows how dangerous it is not to hearken to the calls of God, which we shall for ever rue the neglect of. Observe, I. By whom God calls to us?by wisdom. It is wisdom that crieth without. The word is plural?wisdoms, for, as there is infinite wisdom in God, so there is the manifold wisdom of God, Eph. 3:10. God speaks to the children of men by all the kinds of wisdom, and, as in every will, so in every word,... read more

John Gill

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

John Gill

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 Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 1:26

I also will laugh at your calamity ,.... By way of retaliation, measuring measure for measure; even as they scorned him, and delighted in their scorning, now he in his turn will "laugh" at them and their distress; which act is ascribed to the Lord by an anthropopathy; see Psalm 2:4 ; signifying that he should not at all pity them, show no compassion to them, and have no mercy upon them; but rather express a pleasure and delight in displaying the glory of his justice in their destruction:... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 1:27

When your fear cometh as desolation ,.... When such will be the calamity that will occasion this fear, that it shall be like some desolating judgment, as famine, sword, and pestilence, which lays all waste: and such was the destruction of the Jews by the Romans; it not only laid Jerusalem and the temple waste, but the whole country of Judea. These are the "desolations" said to be "determined", or "the consummation and that determined", which should be "poured upon the desolate", Daniel 9:26... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 1:28

Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer ,.... As he called them, and they refused to answer to his call, Proverbs 1:24 ; so it was just in him to return no answer to them, when they called on him to deliver them from the Romans, and save them from ruin: for this was what they called out for, and what they expected, that the Messiah would come and deliver them; this was what they buoyed themselves up with, and made them so desperate to the last; they shall seek me early, but... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 1:29

For that they hated knowledge ,.... Spiritual and evangelical; the knowledge of the Scriptures, of the promises and prophecies of them respecting the Messiah, though they were called upon and exhorted to "search" them; the knowledge of the Messiah, his person, offices, and grace; the knowledge of his Gospel, and the doctrines of it; see Proverbs 1:22 ; and did not choose the fear of the Lord ; which is the beginning of knowledge, Proverbs 1:7 ; instead of choosing, they cast off the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 1:30

They would none of my counsel ,.... Neither his doctrines nor his ordinances; nor would they attend to the wholesome counsel and advice he gave them in his sermons upon the mount, and in other discourses of his at other times and places; they despised all my reproof ; for their hypocrisy, uncleanness, covetousness, and other sins they were addicted to; see Matthew 23:1 ; but they "derided" him for it, Luke 16:14 ; where the same word is used as is by the Septuagint here. These things... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 1:31

Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way ,.... Their evil ways; be punished according to their deserts, and receive the just reward of their iniquities; see Isaiah 3:10 ; and be filled with their own devices ; or "counsels" F7 ממועצתיהם "de consiliis suis", Pagninus, Montanus; "ex consiliis suis", Junius & Tremellius, &c.; : their device and counsel was to put Christ to death; to deliver him to the Roman governor, that he might be crucified, as he was: and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 1:32

For the turning away of the simple shall slay them ,.... Or be the cause of their being slain; even their turning away from Christ, their aversion to him; their turning their backs on him, and a deaf ear to him; their turning away from his Gospel, and putting it from them, thereby judging themselves unworthy of everlasting life: in all which they showed themselves to be the "simple" and "foolish" persons they were; and for which wrath and ruin came upon them, and they were slain with the... read more

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