Provérbios

Provérbios 18:1

Ver. 1. Reproach. True friendship resembles charity, and bears all things. 1 Cor.

xiii. 4. Heb.

now reads Thave, "desire;" instead of Thuane, occasion, or "pretext," which must have been in the copies of the Sept. and Vulg. C. --- Prot. "through desire, a man having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom."

The solitary seeks heaven. H.

Provérbios 18:2

Ver. 2. Heart. Conformable to his passions. C. --- Heb. "unless to lay open his heart." He wishes to appear wise, and to justify his wicked designs. H.

Provérbios 18:3

Ver. 3. Contemneth both God and man. Lu. xviii. 4. Heb. "is contemned" in his turn. C. --- He is like a man abandoned by the physician. Op. Imp. in Matt. Hom.

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Provérbios 18:4

Ver. 4. Man, who is just and wise. His advice deserves attention. C. xx. 5.

Provérbios 18:6

Ver. 6. Quarrels. Heb. "blows." Sept. "death;" (v. 7.) which are the usual consequences of quarrels.

Provérbios 18:8

Ver. 8. Tongued. Heb. "caluminator." He pretends to wish well to those of whom he speaks, or else to guard the company against deceit. C. --- "If the devil be upon the detractor's tongue, he is in the ears of those who pay attention to him." S. Fran. de Sales. --- Fear, &c. is in the Sept.

above. The Vulg. retains both this and the new version of S. Jerom.

Provérbios 18:9

Ver. 9. Brother. Like him, as both end in poverty. C. x. 4. and xii. 11.

Provérbios 18:10

Ver. 10. Name. Essence, or protection of God. The rich depends on his own wealth.

Provérbios 18:13

Ver. 13. Heareth the end of the question. C. i. 5.

Provérbios 18:14

Ver. 14. Infirmity of the flesh. Matt. xxvi. 41. --- That is. Theodot. "is wounded, who shall support?"

Provérbios 18:16

Ver. 16. Princes. He easily finds access by showing submission. C.

Placatur donis Jupiter ipse suis. Ovid.

Provérbios 18:17

Ver. 17. Him. To see that he act with sincerity.

Provérbios 18:18

Ver. 18. Lot. C. xvi. 33. Sept. "silence." C. --- But Grabe substitutes "lot." H.

Provérbios 18:19

Ver. 19. Judgments of many are more deserving of credit. Heb. "a brother offended, is like a strong place, and their quarrels," &c. The are not easily reconciled. Civil wars are most terrible.

C.

Provérbios 18:20

Ver. 20. Satisfied. Those who are guarded in their words get employment. H. C.

xii. 14.

Provérbios 18:21

Ver. 21. Love it, and speak well or ill, shall receive accordingly. Matt. xii. 37.

Provérbios 18:22

Ver. 22. Good wife. Good is not in Heb. but should be understood, as it is expressed in Sept. of Complut. (C.) and Alex. H. --- He that, &c. occurs not in Heb. Sixtus V. &c. But it is found in Sept. and Arabic. The Syriac omits the last sentence. --- Wicked. S. Aug. had frequently asserted that a divorce was only of counsel: but this he retracted, when he reflected on this text. Ret. i. 19.

--- The Hebrews, Athenians, and Romans, followed the same practice with adulteresses. Selden, Ux. iii. 16. Dem. in Neæram, &c. --- Hermas (past. i. 4.) prescribes that the penitent shall be received again, but not often. In cae of divorce, the fathers still permit not a second marriage, that the parties may be reconciled. They enjoin the husband to put away only such as are incorrigible.

S. Aug. Adul. ii. 3. C.

Provérbios 18:24

Ver. 24. Brother. The ties of nature are not so strong as those of friendship. C.

--- Heb. "a man that hath friends must shew himself friendly; and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother." Prot. H. --- Ut ameris ama. Mart.