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Proverbs 25 |
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Proverbs 25:1 These [are] also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.
God needs not search into any thing; nothing can be hid from him. But it is the honor of rulers to search out matters, to bring to light hidden works of darkness.
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1These [are] also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.2[It is] the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings [is] to search out a matter.3The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings [is] unsearchable.
Author: Matthew Henry Rank: Priest AD: 1714 Source:
Title: Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible Author: Matthew Henry
Moreover, in the days of Hezekiah, there were some of the books selected for use, and others set aside. Whence the Scripture says, “These are the mixed proverbs of Solomon, which the friends of Hezekiah the king copied out.” And from where did they take them but out of the books containing the three thousand parables and the five thousand songs? Out of these, then, the wise friends of Hezekiah took those portions which bore upon the edification of the church. .
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Proverbs 25:2 [It is] the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings [is] to search out a matter.
God needs not search into any thing; nothing can be hid from him. But it is the honor of rulers to search out matters, to bring to light hidden works of darkness.
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1These [are] also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.2[It is] the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings [is] to search out a matter.3The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings [is] unsearchable.
Author: Matthew Henry Rank: Priest AD: 1714 Source:
Title: Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible Author: Matthew Henry
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Proverbs 25:3 The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings [is] unsearchable.
God needs not search into any thing; nothing can be hid from him. But it is the honor of rulers to search out matters, to bring to light hidden works of darkness.
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1These [are] also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.2[It is] the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings [is] to search out a matter.3The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings [is] unsearchable.
Author: Matthew Henry Rank: Priest AD: 1714 Source:
Title: Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible Author: Matthew Henry
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Proverbs 25:4 Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer.
For a prince to suppress vice, and reform his people, is the best way to support his government.
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4Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer.5Take away the wicked [from] before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
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Proverbs 25:5 Take away the wicked [from] before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
For a prince to suppress vice, and reform his people, is the best way to support his government.
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4Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer.5Take away the wicked [from] before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
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Proverbs 25:6 Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great [men]:
Religion teaches us humility and self-denial. He who has seen the glory of the Lord in Christ Jesus, will feel his own unworthiness.
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6Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great [men]:7For better [it is] that it be said unto thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thine eyes have seen.
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Proverbs 25:7 For better [it is] that it be said unto thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thine eyes have seen.
Religion teaches us humility and self-denial. He who has seen the glory of the Lord in Christ Jesus, will feel his own unworthiness.
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6Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great [men]:7For better [it is] that it be said unto thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thine eyes have seen.
Author: Matthew Henry Rank: Priest AD: 1714 Source:
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Proverbs 25:8 Go not forth hastily to strive, lest [thou know not] what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.
To be hasty in beginning strife, will bring into difficulties. War must at length end, and might better be prevented. It is so in private quarrels; do all thou canst to settle the matter.
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8Go not forth hastily to strive, lest [thou know not] what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.9Debate thy cause with thy neighbour [himself]; and discover not a secret to another:10Lest he that heareth [it] put thee to shame, and thine infamy turn not away.
Author: Matthew Henry Rank: Priest AD: 1714 Source:
Title: Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible Author: Matthew Henry
Solomon frequently mentions “friend” and “friendship.” Therefore, it is fitting now to look into what he means by friendship. He says [in effect] that grace and friendship liberate. Also, the Savior in the gospels says to the Jews who had believed in him, “If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” Again, Paul writes, “Christ freed us from the curse of the law.” Hence, if “friendship sets free” and “truth sets free” and the Savior sets free, then Christ is both truth and friendship. Therefore, all who possess the knowledge of Christ are friends to each other. Therefore, the Savior calls his disciples “friends,” and John the Baptist is a friend of the bridegroom, and so are Moses and all the saints. And it is in virtue of that friendship alone, that his friends are also friends to each other. .
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Proverbs 25:9 Debate thy cause with thy neighbour [himself]; and discover not a secret to another:
To be hasty in beginning strife, will bring into difficulties. War must at length end, and might better be prevented. It is so in private quarrels; do all thou canst to settle the matter.
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8Go not forth hastily to strive, lest [thou know not] what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.9Debate thy cause with thy neighbour [himself]; and discover not a secret to another:10Lest he that heareth [it] put thee to shame, and thine infamy turn not away.
Author: Matthew Henry Rank: Priest AD: 1714 Source:
Title: Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible Author: Matthew Henry
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Proverbs 25:10 Lest he that heareth [it] put thee to shame, and thine infamy turn not away.
To be hasty in beginning strife, will bring into difficulties. War must at length end, and might better be prevented. It is so in private quarrels; do all thou canst to settle the matter.
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8Go not forth hastily to strive, lest [thou know not] what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.9Debate thy cause with thy neighbour [himself]; and discover not a secret to another:10Lest he that heareth [it] put thee to shame, and thine infamy turn not away.
Author: Matthew Henry Rank: Priest AD: 1714 Source:
Title: Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible Author: Matthew Henry
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Proverbs 25:11 A word fitly spoken [is like] apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Speak only when you find a listening ear in someone.
If you notice that the person you are speaking to is not listening, then stop speaking. Do not speak to a person who is exhausted or tired, physically or emotionally, or is under stress. Do not talk to someone who is busy and does not have the time to listen to you, or who does not have the time to understand and discuss your views.
Before you speak to someone, choose an appropriate time. The person addressed should feel comfortable at this time. Then you can present your opinion, and he or she will be ready with heart and mind to listen and understand you; they will accept your words.
A word of counsel, or reproof, rightly spoken, is especially beautiful, as fine fruit becomes still more beautiful in silver baskets.
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11A word fitly spoken [is like] apples of gold in pictures of silver.12[As] an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, [so is] a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.
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Proverbs 25:12 [As] an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, [so is] a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.
A word of counsel, or reproof, rightly spoken, is especially beautiful, as fine fruit becomes still more beautiful in silver baskets.
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11A word fitly spoken [is like] apples of gold in pictures of silver.12[As] an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, [so is] a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.
Author: Matthew Henry Rank: Priest AD: 1714 Source:
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Proverbs 25:13 As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, [so is] a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters.
See what ought to be the aim of him that is trusted with any business; to be faithful. A faithful minister, Christ’s messenger, should be thus acceptable to us.
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Proverbs 25:14 Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift [is like] clouds and wind without rain.
He who pretends to have received or given that which he never had, is like the morning cloud, that disappoints those who look for rain.
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Title: Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible Author: Matthew Henry
Humility, then, is the teacher of all the virtues; it is the most firm foundation of the heavenly edifice; it is the Savior’s own magnificent gift. For a person may perform without danger of pride all the miracles that Christ worked if he strains after the meek Lord not because of his exalted signs but because of his patience and humility. But a person who itches to command unclean spirits, to bestow the gift of health on the sick, or to show some wondrous sign to the people is far from Christ even though he invokes the name of Christ in his displays, because by reason of his proud mind he does not follow the teacher of humility.… [Christ] did not say, “If you perform signs and mighty deeds,” but, “If you have love for one another.” Certainly no one can observe this but the gentle and the humble. Therefore our forebears never considered those monks to be upright or free of the disease of vainglory who presented themselves as exorcists before men and who, in the midst of admiring crowds, proclaimed by a boastful display this grace that they had either deserved or arrogated to themselves. Hence, if someone does one of these things in our presence, we should think him praiseworthy not for his wonderful signs but for his splendid behavior, and we should not ask whether demons are subject to him but whether he possesses the parts of love that the apostle describes. –.
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Proverbs 25:15 By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.
Be patient to bear a present hurt. Be mild to speak without passion; for persuasive language is the most effectual to prevail over the hardened mind.
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Proverbs 25:16 Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
God has given us leave to use grateful things, but we are cautioned against excess.
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Proverbs 25:17 Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house; lest he be weary of thee, and [so] hate thee.
We cannot be upon good terms with our neighbors, without discretion as well as sincerity. How much better a Friend is God than any other friend! The oftener we come to him, the more welcome.
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Proverbs 25:18 A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour [is] a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.
A false testimony is dangerous in every thing.
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He that has been struck by a stone goes to a physician, but sharper than a stone are the strokes of calumny. For, as Solomon has said, “A false witness is a war club, and a sword, and a sharp arrow,” and its wounds truth alone is able to cure. If truth is set at naught, the wounds grow worse and worse.
Author: Athanasius the Apostolic Rank: Pope AD: 373
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Proverbs 25:19 Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble [is like] a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.
Confidence in an unfaithful man is painful and vexatious; when we put any stress on him, he not only fails, but makes us feel for it.
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Proverbs 25:20 [As] he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, [and as] vinegar upon nitre, so [is] he that singeth songs to an heavy heart.
We take a wrong course if we think to relieve those in sorrow by endeavoring to make them merry.
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Proverbs 25:21 If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:
The precept to love even our enemies is an Old Testament commandment. Our Savior has shown his own great example in loving us when we were enemies.
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21If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:22For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee.
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This [scriptural passage] seems to prescribe a crime or a vice; therefore, it is a figure of speech directing that we are to participate in the Lord’s passion and treasure up in grateful and salutary remembrance the fact that his flesh was crucified and wounded for us. Scripture says, “If your enemy is hungry, give him food; if he is thirsty, give him drink.” This undoubtedly prescribes a kindness, but the part that follows—“For by so doing you will heap coals of fire upon his head”—you might suppose was commanding a crime of malevolence. So, do not doubt that it is a figurative expression. Although it can have a twofold interpretation, by one intending harm, by the other intending a good, charity should call you away from the former to kindness, so that you may understand that the coals of fire are the burning lamentations of repentance by which that person’s pride is healed and he grieves that he has been an enemy of the one who relieves his misery. .
The apostle Paul teaches us in the clearest possible way that alms are to be distributed to everybody, when he says, “Let us be tireless, while we have the time, in doing good to all, though supremely to those at home in the faith.” This indeed makes it plain enough that in works of this kind the just are to be given preference. Who else, after all, are we to understand by “those at home in the faith,” since elsewhere it is stated plainly, “The just person lives by faith”? That doesn’t mean, though, that we must close our hearts to other people, even sinners, not even if they adopt a hostile attitude toward us. The Savior himself says, after all, “Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you.” Nor is the point passed over in silence in the books of the Old Testament; one reads there, you see, “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink,” a text the apostle also makes use of in the New. ..
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Proverbs 25:22 For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee.
The precept to love even our enemies is an Old Testament commandment. Our Savior has shown his own great example in loving us when we were enemies.
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21If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:22For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee.
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Proverbs 25:23 The north wind driveth away rain: so [doth] an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.
Slanders would not be so readily spoken, if they were not readily heard. Sin, if it receives any check, becomes cowardly.
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Proverbs 25:24 [It is] better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.
It is better to be alone, than to be joined to one who is a hindrance to the comfort of life.
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What necessity rests upon me to run the risk of the wife I marry proving good or bad? “It is better,” [Solomon] says, “to dwell in a desert land than with a contentious and passionate woman.” He who is married knows how seldom we find a wife without these faults. Hence that sublime orator, Varius Geminus, says well, “The man who does not quarrel is a bachelor.” [In fact], “it is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than with a contentious woman in a house in common.” If a house common to husband and wife makes a wife proud and breeds contempt for the husband, how much more if the wife is the richer of the two and the husband but a lodger in her house! She begins to be not a wife but mistress of the house; and if she offends her husband, they must part.
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Proverbs 25:25 [As] cold waters to a thirsty soul, so [is] good news from a far country.
Heaven is a country afar off; how refreshing is good news from thence, in the everlasting gospel, which signifies glad tidings, and in the witness of the Spirit with our spirits that we are God’s children!
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Just as “waters are pleasant to the thirsty soul,” as Scripture says, so to the mind that loves instruction is the lifegiving knowledge of the mysteries of our Savior. Let us, therefore, draw from the sacred springs the living and lifegiving waters, even those that are rational and spiritual. Let us take our fill, and weary not in the drinking; for in these things more than enough is still for edification, and greediness is great praise. Commentary on Luke, Homily
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Proverbs 25:26 A righteous man falling down before the wicked [is as] a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.
When the righteous are led into sin, it is as hurtful as if the public fountains were poisoned.
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Proverbs 25:27 [It is] not good to eat much honey: so [for men] to search their own glory [is not] glory.
We must be, through grace, dead to the pleasures of sense, and also to the praises of men.
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Proverbs 25:28 He that [hath] no rule over his own spirit [is like] a city [that is] broken down, [and] without walls.
The man who has no command over his anger, is easily robbed of peace. Let us give up ourselves to the Lord, and pray him to put his Spirit within us, and cause us to walk in his statutes.
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The example and image used in this text, which compares a person with a city that is broken down and without walls, demonstrates how dangerous it is for a monk to be deprived of [selfcontrol]. Herein is wisdom; herein is knowledge and understanding. Without them can neither our interior dwelling be built nor spiritual riches be gathered, as it is written: “With wisdom a dwelling is built, and with knowledge it is set up again; with understanding its cellars are filled with all precious riches and good things.” .
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