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2015 July 10



Image 1: The Golden Stairs (1876-1880)
Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898)
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Style
Tate Britain, London, England, United Kingdom
Image Credit: Wikimedia

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Image 2: The Beguiling of Merlin (1874)
Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898)
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Style
Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight Village, Merseyside, Wirral, England, United Kingdom
Image Credit: Wikimedia


     Explanation: In Proverbs 9 the personification of Wisdom continues from the previous chapter; and Folly is also personified. I have chosen two paintings by Burne-Jones to illustrate these contrasts. I am using the first painting in reference to verse three which speaks of Wisdom's maidens which she sends forth to invite the simple to life and blessing. I am using the second painting to illustrate an invitation to death and cursing, the deceit which Folly uses.

          [ THEMATICALLY AND CHRONOLOGICALLY RELATED SCRIPTURES: Proverbs 5. Proverbs 6. Proverbs 7. Proverbs 8. ]

          [ CHRONOLOGY: GENERAL. Patriarchs (Traditional). Judges # 1. Judges # 2. Kings # 1. Kings # 2. Prophets # 1. Prophets # 2. NT # 1. NT # 2. NT # 3. ]

          [ MAPS: Maps # 1. Maps # 2. Maps # 3. Maps # 4. Maps # 5. ]

          [ COMMENTARIES, ETC: GENERAL: Bible Study Tools; Bible Hub: Study Light; Blue Letter Bible // PSALMS: Monergism: Precept Austin: The Treasury of David; John Gill; John Calvin - Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

          [ MUSIC: GENERAL: The Cyber Hymnal // PSALMS: Genevan Psalter (Instrumental). VARIOUS ARTISTS: Proverbs - #1.. Proverbs - #2. ]

     The chapter begins with a sumptuous image. Wisdom built a house with seven pillars; she prepared a great banquet of meat and mingled wine set upon her table. She sent forth her maidens to the highest places of the city to call the simple to come to the banquet, to forsake the foolish and live, and to go in the way of understanding (1-6). She warns that those who reprove a scorner and those who reprove a wicked man will get shame (abuse) and a blot (injury) because a scoffer will hate you. But a wise man will love you if you reprove him. If you instruct a wise man he will be still wiser. If you teach a righteous man he will increase in learning. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight. By wisdom your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life. If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if you scoff, you alone will bear it (7-12). The woman Folly is loud, seductive, and knows nothing. She sits at the door of her house; she takes a seat on the highest places in town (as Wisdom does), and she calls to those who pass by, who otherwise would go straight on their way. She calls, (as Wisdom does), for the simple and those who lack sense. But instead of inviting them to a great banquet, as Wisdom did, she invites them to stolen water and bread eaten in secret, calling them sweet and pleasant. But the one she calls does not know that the dead are there and that her guests are in the depths of Hell (13-18).


PROVERBS

COLLECTION 1 OF 2

PROVERBS OF SOLOMON & THE WISE (SOLOMON'S COLLECTION)

Proverbs 1-24.


Proverbs 9

1 Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:
2 She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.
3 She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,
4 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
5 Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.
6 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
7 He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.
8 Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
9 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
11 For by me thydays shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.
12 If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.

13 A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.
14 For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
15 To call passengers [travelers on the road] who go right on their ways:
16 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
17 Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
18 But he knoweth not that the dead are there;and that her guests are in the depths of hell.







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