20Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.
And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. …
We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: …
I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-21)Solomon here changes his style and manner of speaking. Hitherto, for the most part, since the beginning of Prov. 10:1; he had laid down doctrinal truths, and but now and then dropped a word of exhortation, leaving us to make the application as we went along; but here, to the end of Prov. 22:17-24:34; he directs his speech to his son, his pupil, his reader, his hearer, speaking as to a particular p…
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