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The Proverbs. Chapter 6 (#64882)
The Proverbs. Chapter 6
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Notes and Comments 3
By:
John Nelson Darby
Narrator:
Chris Genthree
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Proverbs 6 • 1 min. read • grade level: 6
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Rashness—sluggishness—insolence of heart. Then subjection of spirit, learning divine wisdom as subject, guarding from the allurements of corrupt lusts, the ways of which are portrayed in the following chapter. Here more, breach of the divine bond of marriage—there, dissoluteness itself.
3. The word
rah-hav
(make sure) is difficult, and, as a verb, rare. The sense would be "insist earnestly" with him, press upon him. We have it as dealing proudly with the ancient,
Isa. 3:5
5
And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honorable. (Isaiah 3:5)
; the eyes overcoming,
Sol. 6:5
5
Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead. (Song of Solomon 6:5)
;
Psa. 138:3
3
In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul. (Psalm 138:3)
, "Thou strengthenedst me... in my soul." The root is "standing up haughtily"—pride. It would seem to require the
Hiphil
form for the English sense. The moral sense is clear, "to go and get it settled" at once, even if the process be humbling. The connection of the humbling oneself is this: you have undertaken for the man, and now you must go and press upon him to clear you, and get you out of the scrape. This is very humbling, but you are in his hand.
Ba-tha b'caph re-eka
(thou art fallen into the hand of thy neighbor).
The thought is "delivering oneself." I suppose those that have been in the case, know that "going surety" means generally "paying."
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