A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: To understand a proverb, and the interpretation: the words of the wise, and their dark sayings. An Exposition of the Book of Proverbs - Page 2by Charles Bridges - 1847 - 544 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Arnot - 1863 - 442 pages
...lustre of that pure righteousness which the Spirit has spoken by his lips. IL THE BOOK— PROVERBS. " To understand a proverb, and the interpretation ; the words of the wise and their dark sayings."— i. 6. IT is safer and better to assume that all men know what a proverb is, than to attempt a logical... | |
| Bread - 1862 - 122 pages
...will hear, and will increase learning : and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: to understand a proverb, and the interpretation: the words of the wise, and their dark sayings." Sometimes we see, in the Bible, such expressions as this, " He took up his parable ; " that is the... | |
| 1870
...honrt." Illustrations. PEOVEBBS i. 5, 6. — " A man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels : to understand a proverb, and the interpretation ; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings." Eastern Proverbs. — Tho people of the East look upon the acquirements of the ancients to have been... | |
| James Frederick Todd - 1864 - 332 pages
...earnest inquiry was stimulated; and the really wise and thoughtful " attained to wise counsels," even "to understand a proverb and the interpretation; the words of the wise and their dark sayingsu" (atviyiíara). Lord Bacon regarded the continued history of the old world, and church of... | |
| esq Henry Jenkins - 1865 - 976 pages
...will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. My son,... | |
| Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1865 - 644 pages
...interpretations,' of hard questions and riddles. The climax of the definition of wisdom is ' the ' understanding of a proverb, and the interpretation ; the ' words of the wise, and their dark 5 sayings.' The kings and chiefs around seem to have been stimulated by his example, or by their example... | |
| Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1866 - 698 pages
...of hard questions and riddles. The -climax of the definition of wisdom is "the understand•" ing of a proverb, and the interpretation ; the words "of the wise, and their dark sayings."2 The kings and chiefs around seem to have been stimulated by his example, or by their example... | |
| 1867 - 1216 pages
...will heur, and will increase learning ; and a uian of understanding aliall attain unto wise counsel? : his son, saying, 2 I go the way of all the earth ; be thou strong therefore, and show thyself a m 7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge ; but fools despise wisdom and instruction. 8... | |
| James Lee (M.A.) - 1867 - 508 pages
...whereas the foolish because it is his own. — Rev. J. Balguy. man, being in proportion to his folly 0 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation ; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings. 7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge : but fools despise wisdom and instruction. F.7.... | |
| Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1867 - 478 pages
...interpretations" of hard questions and riddles. The climax of the definition of wisdom is " the understanding of a proverb, and the interpretation ; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings." The chiefs around seem to have been stimulated by his example, or by their example to have stimulated... | |
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