Proverbs (Geneva)

by Charles Bridges

The Book of Proverbs, in Bridges' view, 'is not generally estimated at its just value'. The author ofThe Christian Ministrydoes not favour a purely technical study of the text, but gives a homiletical and practical treatment. 'The best work on the Proverbs', was C.H. Spurgeon's verdict on this commentary. 'Whilst explaining the passage in hand, he sets other portions of the word in new lights'.

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Hardcover, 656 pages

Published September 1st 1991 by Banner of Truth (first published 1968)

tags: theology, christianity, religion, nonfiction, christian living, old testament, christian

Book Quotes

“ignorance is the field, on which the quackery of a political impostor ever reaps its most abundant harvest.”

― Charles Bridges

“It is not enough, that there is no poison in the tongue. It must be healing, not only purified from “corrupt communication,” but “ministering grace unto the hearers.”

― Charles Bridges

“The gospel does not shut us up in our own private interests, as if we had no sympathy with our neighbour. It is an universal brotherhood of love.”

― Charles Bridges

“Nowhere throughout the universe do the moral perfections of the Governor of the world shine so gloriously as at the cross”

― Charles Bridges

“He is surely a brute, and not a rational creature, who has swallowed poison, and will rather suffer it to take its course, than admit the necessary relief of medicine, lest he should be obliged to confess his folly, in exposing himself to the need of it.”

― Charles Bridges

“Let us study the minute details of our Master’s well-filled life. He shall deal prudently (Isaiah 52:13.). This was his distinctive character. The Spirit of prudence was the furniture for his work.”

― Charles Bridges

“Among all my conquests’ — said the dying emperor Valentinian — ‘there is but one that now comforts me. I have overcome my worst enemy — my own haughty heart.”

― Charles Bridges

Charles Bridges

Charles Bridges was a preacher and theologian in the Church of England, and a leader of that denomination's Evangelical Party. As a preacher he was well-regarded by his contemporaries, but is remembered today for his literary contributions. Educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, he was ordained in 1817 and served from 1823 to 1849 as vicar of Old Newton, Suffolk.

In 1849, he became vicar of Weymouth, Dorset, later serving as vicar of Hinton Martell, Dorset (c. 1857). Bridges participated (with J. C. Ryle) in the Clerical Conference at Weston-super-Mare of 1858, and also participated in the consecration of the Bishop of Carlisle in York Minster in 1860.

At least twenty-four editions of Bridges' Exposition of Psalm 119 (1827) were published in his lifetime. C. H. Spurgeon considered the commentary to be 'worth its weight in gold'. Spurgeon also pronounced Bridges' Exposition of Proverbs (1840) 'The best work on the Proverbs'.

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