14Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men which are in the city.
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! …
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-21)Wisdom here is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge ; it is Christ in the word and Christ in the heart, not only Christ revealed to us, but Christ revealed in us. It is the word of God, the whole compass of divine revelation; it is God the Word, in whom all divine revelation centres; it is the soul formed by the word; it is Christ formed in the soul; it is religion…
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