Handbook for Bible Students

Proverbs

Key-word, “Wisdom;” Key-verse, 9:10.-Here is exhibited wisdom in practical life, shaping character and conduct, regulating alike man’s relations to man and to God. True wisdom develops manhood, leads to morality, and in its highest reach, to piety; it demands obedience to both tables of the law. It makes the understanding clear, the heart clean, the conscience pure, and the will firm. Wisdom as here personified, corresponds to the Word, or Logos, in John. [p. 46] HBS 38.7