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7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Proverbs 1:7

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Matthew Henry

(vv. 7-9)

Solomon, having undertaken to teach a young man knowledge and discretion , here lays down two general rules to be observed in order thereunto, and those are, to fear God and honour his parents, which two fundamental laws of morality Pythagoras begins his golden verses with, but the former of them in a wretchedly corrupted state. Primum, deos immortales cole, parentesque honora—First worship the im...

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