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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE PROVERBS . The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel: 1 To know wisdom and instruction; a To discern the words of understanding; 1. 1. proverbs. On the general question of the relation of this title to the literary character of the whole book, see the Introduction, p. 10. But the word rendered ' proverbs' means something between a comparison and a parable, and in its Greek equivalent is sometimes rendered by either English word (cf. John xvi. 25 with the marginal reading). For its further use in the O. T. see Ezek. xiv. 8; Isa. xiv. 4. It will thus be seen that the word either applies to the short and pithy sentences to which we generally give the name of Proverbs, and which constitute the larger part of this book, or to longer and more fully developed similes, such as those that occur in the first nine chapters, and are found in other parts of the Bible. 2. To know wisdom. From verses 2 to 6 the writer gives an extended title, or, more accurately, a detailed explanation of his title, the recurring infinitives being designed to express the purpose of the Proverbs, and the words in which this is set forth are those which recur frequently throughout the book. These verses are like the overture of an opera, which suggests the themes that are afterwards to be developed in detail. In particular is ' wisdom' the central conception, not only of this book, but of the whole class of literature to which it belongs (see Introduction, p. 17 ff.). instruction. The word which is rendered in the Latin version discipline!, and sometimes in our version ' chastening, ' conveys the idea that all true knowledge involves an element of suffering 'there is no gain except by loss.' discern. This gives a further idea of examining into the terms of truth, a very necessa...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781458845030
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 124
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1458845036
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 236 gr


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