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Doesn’t wisdom cry out? Doesn’t understanding raise her voice? See also: Proverbs 1:20-21 Matthew 3:3 John 7:37On the top of high places by the way, where the paths meet, she stands. See also: Proverbs 9:14 Proverbs 9:3Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the entry doors, she cries aloud: See also: Job 29:7 Matthew 22:9 Luke 14:21-23“I call to you men! I send my voice to the sons of mankind. See also: Matthew 11:15 Psalms 50:1 John 3:16You simple, understand prudence! You fools, be of an understanding heart! See also: Proverbs 1:22 Proverbs 9:4 Revelation 3:17-18Hear, for I will speak excellent things. The opening of my lips is for right things. See also: Colossians 1:26 Matthew 7:28-29 Proverbs 4:2For my mouth speaks truth. Wickedness is an abomination to my lips. See also: Psalms 37:30 John 8:14 Proverbs 12:22All the words of my mouth are in righteousness. There is nothing crooked or perverse in them. See also: John 7:46 Psalms 12:6 Proverbs 8:13They are all plain to him who understands, right to those who find knowledge. See also: Proverbs 14:6 James 1:5 John 7:17Receive my instruction rather than silver, knowledge rather than choice gold. See also: Proverbs 2:4-5 Psalms 119:127 Psalms 119:72For wisdom is better than rubies. All the things that may be desired can’t be compared to it. See also: Proverbs 4:5-7 Proverbs 3:14-15 Psalms 19:10“I, wisdom, have made prudence my dwelling. Find out knowledge and discretion. See also: Isaiah 28:26 Exodus 35:30 Proverbs 1:4The fear of the LORD is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth. See also: Psalms 97:10 Proverbs 16:6 1 Samuel 2:3Counsel and sound knowledge are mine. I have understanding and power. See also: Ecclesiastes 7:19 Isaiah 9:6 Romans 11:33-34By me kings reign, and princes decree justice. See also: Romans 13:1 Daniel 2:21 Matthew 28:18By me princes rule, nobles, and all the righteous rulers of the earth. I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me. See also: John 14:23 John 14:21 Psalms 91:14With me are riches, honor, enduring wealth, and prosperity. See also: Proverbs 3:16 Matthew 6:33 Philippians 4:19My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold, my yield than choice silver. See also: Proverbs 3:14 Proverbs 10:20 Ecclesiastes 7:12I walk in the way of righteousness, in the middle of the paths of justice, See also: John 10:27-28 Psalms 32:8 Deuteronomy 5:32that I may give wealth to those who love me. I fill their treasuries. See also: Proverbs 24:4 1 Peter 1:4 Genesis 15:14“The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his work, before his deeds of old. See also: John 1:1-2 Colossians 1:17 Proverbs 3:19I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth existed. See also: John 17:24 John 17:5 Micah 5:2When there were no depths, I was born, when there were no springs abounding with water. See also: 1 John 4:9 Proverbs 3:20 Genesis 1:2Before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I was born; See also: Psalms 90:2 Psalms 102:25-28 Job 15:7-8while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world. See also: Genesis 1:1-31When he established the heavens, I was there. When he set a circle on the surface of the deep, See also: Isaiah 40:22 Job 26:10 Proverbs 3:19when he established the clouds above, when the springs of the deep became strong, when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth, See also: Psalms 104:9 Jeremiah 5:22 Genesis 1:9-10then I was the craftsman by his side. I was a delight day by day, always rejoicing before him, See also: John 1:1-3 John 1:18 Matthew 3:17rejoicing in his whole world. My delight was with the sons of men. See also: Psalms 16:3 John 13:1 Psalms 40:6-8“Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways. See also: Luke 11:28 Psalms 119:1-2 Psalms 1:1-4Hear instruction, and be wise. Don’t refuse it. See also: Proverbs 4:1 Psalms 81:11-12 Proverbs 1:8Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my door posts. See also: Luke 11:28 Matthew 7:24 Proverbs 3:13For whoever finds me finds life, and will obtain favor from the LORD. See also: John 3:36 1 John 5:11-12 Proverbs 12:2But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.” See also: Proverbs 15:32 Proverbs 1:31 1 Corinthians 16:22

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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)18 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 8:1

Ver. 1. Voice. Men are wanting to themselves: they cannot plead ignorance. C.

--- Wisdom stands on high in the Catholic Church inviting all to virtue and happiness. W. --- Some explain this of the light which is communicated to men; but the Fathers apply it to Jesus Christ, some of the expressions regarding his divinity, and others his human nature. Eccli. xxiv.

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Proverbs 8:3

Ver. 3. Doors. Amid disputants, whose eagerness ought to convince us of the preference due to wisdom over all terrestrial concerns. v. 10.

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Proverbs 8:10

Ver. 10. Money. They are generally incompatible.

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Proverbs 8:12

Ver. 12. Thoughts. All good comes from God, the eternal wisdom, (C.) which speaks here. W.

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Proverbs 8:15

Ver. 15. Things. Power and knowledge are the gift of the Almighty. Rom. xii. 1.

A prince who resembles God the most, is his best present. Pliny in Trajan.

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Proverbs 8:18

Ver. 18. Glorious. Lit. "proud." H. --- But here it only means great. Is. ix 15. and lxi. 6. Riches too commonly nourish pride, and it is very rare to see them joined with justice. C.

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Proverbs 8:19

Ver. 19. Stone. So the Sept. translate paz, (H.) which designates a more pure sort of gold. Gen.

ii. 11. C.

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Proverbs 8:21

Ver. 21. Enrich. Heb. "grant what is (real goods) an inheritance to them," &c. ---

Treasures.

Sept. add, "with goods. If I announce to you daily occurrences, I will admonish you to number the things of the world," (H.) and all past events. C.

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Proverbs 8:22

Ver. 22. Possessed. As Christ was with God, equal to him in eternity. Jo. i.

Sept. "created,"

which many of the Fathers explain of the word incarnate, (see Corn. a Lapide.

Bossuet) or he hath "placed me," (S. Athan. iii. con. Arian. Euseb.) a pattern of all virtues. The Sept. generally render kana, "possessed," as Aquila does here.

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Proverbs 8:23

Ver. 23. Up. Heb. "anointed." Sept. "he founded." Christ was appointed to be the foundation, on which we must be built. S. Athan. iii. Orat.

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Proverbs 8:24

Ver. 24. Conceived. Having yet manifested none of my works. Since the creation, wisdom only seeks to communicate itself to us. C.

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Proverbs 8:26

Ver. 26. Poles. Heb. "head or height of the dust of the world." H. --- I subsisted with the chaos, before things appeared in their present form. C. --- The poles denote the north and south, or the four quarters of the world. M.

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Proverbs 8:28

Ver. 28. Sky. Prot. "clouds." Pagn. "the air." Vulg. æthera. Sept. "the clouds above." H. ---

Moses assigns the higher and lower waters the same origin. Gen. i. 7.

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Proverbs 8:29

Ver. 29. Pass. This is often remarked. Ps. xli. 8. --- Earth. See Job xxxviii. 8. C.

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Proverbs 8:30

Ver. 30. Forming. Heb. "one nursed," (C.) or nursing, nutritius. Pagn. --- He was not an idle spectator. --- Playing. With ease and surprising variety. C.

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Proverbs 8:31

Ver. 31. Men. God saw that all was good, but delighted most in his own image.

M. --- He prefers man before all other corporeal creatures. W. --- To him alone below he has granted understanding, and a soul capable of virtue. The Son has also assumed our nature. Bar. iii. 37.

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Proverbs 8:35

Ver. 35. Lord. Wisdom, or Jesus Christ, is our salvation, happiness, and life.

Sept. "and the will is prepared by the Lord." S. Aug. often quotes this to prove the necessity of preventing grace.

Ep. ccxvii. and clxxxvi. C.

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Proverbs 8:36

Ver. 36. Death. Not in itself, (H.) but by adhering to such things as bring death.

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License: 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

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