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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown · 1871

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown · 1871

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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871). CCEL expanded electronic edition states it is in the public domain.

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Proverbs Chapter 22 1 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Pr 22:1-29.

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Pr 22:1-29.

1. A good name--

(Job 30:8,

Hebrew); "good" is supplied here from

Ec 7:1.

loving favour--kind regard, that is, of the wise and good.

Proverbs Chapter 22 2 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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2. Before God all are on the same footing

(Pr 14:31; 17:5).

Proverbs Chapter 22 3 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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3. are punished--that is, for their temerity; for the evil is not necessarily punitive, as the prudent might otherwise be its objects.

Proverbs Chapter 22 4 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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4. humility and the fear of the Lord--are in apposition; one produces the other. On the results, compare

Pr 3:16; 8:18.

Proverbs Chapter 22 5 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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5. he that . . . them--Those who properly watch over their own souls are thus preserved from the dangers which attend the way of perverse men

(Pr 16:17).

Proverbs Chapter 22 6 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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6. Train--initiate, or early instruct.

the way--literally, "his way," that selected for him in which he should go; for early training secures habitual walking in it.

Proverbs Chapter 22 7 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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7. The influence of wealth sets aside moral distinctions is implied, and, of course, disapproved (compare

Pr 19:6; 21:14,

&c.).

Proverbs Chapter 22 8 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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8. (Compare

Pr 11:18; Ps 109:16-20; Ga 6:7, 8).

the rod . . . fail--His power to do evil will be destroyed.