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My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you, See also: Proverbs 3:1Proverbs 1:3John 12:47-48so as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding; See also: Proverbs 23:12Proverbs 18:1Psalms 90:12yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding; See also: James 1:5Ephesians 1:17-18Proverbs 3:6if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures; See also: Matthew 13:44Matthew 19:29Proverbs 16:16then you will understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. See also: Proverbs 1:7Jeremiah 24:7Luke 11:9-13For the LORD gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding. See also: Ephesians 1:17-18James 1:5Luke 21:15He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity, See also: James 3:15-17Proverbs 30:5Psalms 84:11that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints. See also: Psalms 23:31 Samuel 2:9John 10:28-29Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path. See also: Jeremiah 6:16Psalms 143:8-10Isaiah 48:17For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. See also: Jeremiah 15:16Colossians 3:16Job 23:12Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you, See also: Proverbs 4:6Ephesians 5:15Psalms 25:21to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things, See also: 1 Corinthians 15:33Proverbs 13:20Proverbs 8:13who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness, See also: John 3:19-20Proverbs 4:192 Peter 2:20-22who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil, See also: Proverbs 10:23Romans 1:32Jeremiah 11:15who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths, See also: Psalms 125:5Proverbs 21:8Philippians 2:15to deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words, See also: Ecclesiastes 7:26Proverbs 6:24Proverbs 7:5-23who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God; See also: Ezekiel 16:59-60Ezekiel 16:8Jeremiah 3:4for her house leads down to death, her paths to the departed spirits. See also: 1 Corinthians 6:9-11Proverbs 9:18Galatians 5:19-21None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life. See also: Ecclesiastes 7:26Psalms 81:12Hosea 4:14Therefore walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous. See also: Hebrews 6:123 John 1:11Psalms 119:63For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it. See also: Psalms 84:11Psalms 37:9Psalms 37:29But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it. See also: Psalms 52:5Isaiah 3:10-11Deuteronomy 7:22
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)10 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Proverbs 2:1
Ver. 1. If. This proves free will. To become truly wise, we must desire it with the same avidity as a miser seeks for riches. W. --- We must also pray, (v. 3.) with humility (v. 2.) to God, the giver of wisdom. v. 6. Every science which has not Him for the beginning and end, is vain and dangerous. C.
↑ 1Proverbs 2:7
Ver. 7. Salvation. Prot. "sound wisdom." Tushiya (H.) often occurs in this book, and is very comprehensive, (C.) denoting the substance (H.) of goodness, virtue, &c. Job v. 12.
↑ 7Proverbs 2:8
Ver. 8. Justice. In his servants. C. --- God gives them grace to follow virtue, (H.) and protects them from every danger. C.
↑ 8Proverbs 2:12
Ver. 12. Things. The danger of such company for young people is very great, as the heart is misled by the understanding, (C.) if it do not itself shew the way to error. H. --- We all possess a fund of corruption. C.
↑ 12Proverbs 2:14
Ver. 14. Evil. These signs prove whom we ought to shun. S. Aug. depicts his own conduct before his conversion in the darkest colours. C.
↑ 14Proverbs 2:16
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 16. Strange. Idolatress, (Grot.) or rather the abandoned woman, whether married or not. C.
--- This description, as well as the former, guards us against heretics, who leave the right way of the Catholic Church, (v. 13.) and devise perverse doctrines of rebellion against princes, &c. as if faith alone were sufficient. By this faith, Prot. do not mean any article which all must believe, but only that each one must be convinced that he himself is just, and will be saved. Like the strange woman, they preach a comfortable doctrine, and use sweet speeches.
Rom. xvi. 18. Their conversion is a very difficult matter, (v. 19.) because they are condemned by their own judgment, (Tit. iii. 11.) and will not admit of the ordinary means of instruction in the Church. W.
↑ 16Proverbs 2:17
Ver. 17. Youth. Her husband, whom she married young when love is more lasting. This increases her guilt. It may also signify her father, or preceptor.
↑ 17Proverbs 2:18
Ver. 18. God. The law forbids adultery, and all impurities. Deut. xxiii. 17. Lev. xx.
10. Both the parties, guilty of adultery, were punished with death. C.
↑ 18Proverbs 2:19
Ver. 19. Life. A sincere conversion is so rare among people once addicted to impurity, (H.) which resembles a deep pit. C. --- This illness is hardly removed.
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↑ 19Proverbs 2:21
Ver. 21. Earth. Happily. This was the wish of the carnal Jews. But the more enlightened raise their thoughts to heaven.
↑ 21License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses