Provérbios 2
John Phillips · Citado em PreceptAustin
Provérbios 2
Phillips - In other words, we need to make an active and determined effort to become acquainted with wisdom. We need to make an active and determined effort to get to know the Word of God where the highest wisdom is stored. Understanding (08394)(tebunah from bin = to discern) is a noun describing the ability to discern a right course of action (Dt 32:28, Ps 136:5, 145:5, Pr 3:19). In other contexts, tebunah refers to skill or the ability to perform a craft (Ex 31:3). Tebunah is the object of knowledge (Pr 2:3; 3:13; 5:1; 14:29; 18:2; 19:8 Ps 49:4; 147:5 Is 40:28 1Ki 5:9; 7:14) Vine summarizes tebunah - it represents the act (Job 26:12), faculty (Ex. 31:3), object (Pr 2:3), and personification of wisdom (Pr. 8:1). Understanding - Baker's Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology The Lxx translates tebunah in Pr 2:2 and Pr 2:6 with sunesis (sun = with + hiemi = send) literally is a sending together or a bringing together. Sunesis describes the putting together, grasping or exhibiting quick comprehension. Sunesis is the ability to understand concepts and see relationships between them. Sunesis suggests quickness of apprehension, the penetrating consideration which precedes action. Sunesis is the ability to understand concepts and see relationships between them. Understanding (Webster) = power of comprehending; especially the capacity to apprehend general relations of particulars; the power to make experience intelligible by applying concepts and categories. The faculty of the human mind by which it apprehends the real state of things presented to it, or by which it receives or comprehends the ideas which others express and intend to communicate. The understanding is called also the intellectual faculty. It is the faculty by means of which we obtain a great part of our knowledge. Augustine has a good word on understanding - Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand. Charles Swindoll - Because our understanding is earthbound… human to the core… limited… finite… we operate in a dimension totally unlike our Lord… who knows no such limitations. We see now. He sees forever. (Ed: It follows that we can greatly benefit from divinely dispensed understanding!) Oswald Chambers-If there is anything hidden from us as disciples today, it is because we are not in a fit state to understand it. As soon as we become fit in spiritual character, the thing is revealed; it is concealed at God’s discretion until the life is developed sufficiently. Understanding in Baker's Evangelical Dictionary NAS Usage: discernment(1), reasonings(1), skill(1), skillful(1), skillfully(1), understanding(37). Tebunah - 42v - Ex. 31:3; 35:31; 36:1; Dt. 32:28; 1Ki. 4:29; 7:14; Job 12:12, 13; 26:12; 32:11; Ps. 49:3; 78:72; 136:5; 147:5; Pr. 2:2-3, 6, 11; 3:13, 19; 5:1; 8:1; 10:23; 11:12; 14:29; 15:21; 17:27; 18:2; 19:8; 20:5; 21:30; 24:3; 28:16; Isa. 40:14, 28; 44:19; Jer. 10:12; 51:15; Ezek. 28:4; Hos. 13:2; Obad. 1:7, 8 Here are all the uses of tebunah in Proverbs (Take a moment to read through these passages which will give you a good "working definition" of the Hebrew word tebunah). Pr 2:2 Make your ear attentive to wisdom, Incline your heart to understanding; Pr 2:3 For if you cry for discernment, Lift your voice for understanding; Pr 2:6 For the LORD gives wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge and understanding. Pr 2:11 Discretion will guard you, Understanding will watch over you, Pr 3:13 How blessed is the man who finds wisdom And the man who gains understanding. Pr 3:19 The LORD by wisdom founded the earth, By understanding He established the heavens. Pr 5:1 My son, give attention to my wisdom, Incline your ear to my understanding; Pr 8:1 Does not wisdom call, And understanding lift up her voice? Pr 10:23 Doing wickedness is like sport to a fool, And so is wisdom to a man of understanding. Pr 11:12 He who despises his neighbor lacks sense, But a man of understanding keeps silent. Pr 14:29 He who is slow to anger has great understanding, But he who is quick-tempered exalts folly. Pr 15:21 Folly is joy to him who lacks sense, But a man of understanding walks straight. Pr 17:27 He who restrains his words has knowledge, And he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding. Pr 18:2 A fool does not delight in understanding, But only in revealing his own mind. Pr 19:8 He who gets wisdom loves his own soul; He who keeps understanding will find good. Pr 20:5 A plan in the heart of a man is like deep water, But a man of understanding draws it out. Pr 21:30 There is no wisdom and no understanding And no counsel against the LORD. Pr 24:3 By wisdom a house is built, And by understanding it is established; Pr 28:16 A leader who is a great oppressor lacks understanding, But he who hates unjust gain will prolong his days. The following are notes from William Arnot's "Laws from Heaven for Life on Earth" (1858) on Proverbs 2:1-5 - 2. “Incline thine ear.” (Proverbs 2:2) The entrance of the word has an immediate effect on the attitude of the mind and the course of the life. The incoming of the word makes the ear incline to wisdom; and the inclining of the ear to wisdom lets in and lays up greater treasures of the word. In practice it will be found that those who hide the word within them, feeding on it as daily bread, acquire a habitual bent of mind towards things spiritual. On the other hand, when the truth touches, and glances off again, like sunlight from polar snows, it is both a symptom and a cause of an inclination of the mind away from God and goodness. The great obstacle to the power and spread of the gospel lies in the averted attitude of human hearts. The mind is turned in another direction, and the faculties occupied in other pursuits. How hopeful the work of preaching becomes when the lie and the liking of the listener’s soul is towards saving truth! When the heart is applied to it, some portion of the word goes in, and that which has obtained an entrance prepares the way for more. To him that hath that little will be given much, and he shall have abundance. A man inclines his ear to those sounds which already his heart desires; again to turn the ear, by an exercise of will at God’s high command, to the word of wisdom, is the very way to inoculate the heart with a love to that word passing the love of earthly things. The lean of the disciples’ hearts in the days of old drew them to Jesus; and Jesus near, made their hearts burn with a keener glow. The ear and the heart!—precious gifts! He that hath an ear to hear, let him hear what the Spirit saith; he that hath a heart to love, let him love with it the altogether Lovely. The ear inclined to divine wisdom will draw the heart; the heart drawn will incline the ear. Behold one of the circles in which God, for his own glory, makes his unnumbered worlds go round. (Proverbs 2:4,5 Seek and Ye Shall Find) Proverbs 2:3 For if you cry for discernment, Lift your voice for understanding; if - Pr 3:6; 8:17; 1Ki 3:9-12; 1Chr 22:12; Ps 25:4,5;119:34,73,125,169; Luke 11:13; Ephesians 1:17,18; James 1:5 DO YOU HAVE NOT BECAUSE YOU ASK NOT? For - Probably better translated - indeed (NET), furthermore (HCSB), yes (ESV), yea (KJV). Indeed if you cry for discernment…
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Phillips writes that "Wisdom brings its own rewards: "Wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul." Those who have acquired wisdom have had their eyes opened. They are unlike blind old Pew, one of the villains in Treasure Island. What terror he struck into the heart of young Jim Hawkins! What consternation Pew's visit to the Admiral Benbow Inn brought to the drunken old pirate who lodged there! Pew cursed his companions as they ransacked the inn looking in vain for the treasure map and he cursed his own blindness. Finally when his companions abandoned him to his fate, when the warning signal sounded and the drumming of hoofbeats was heard, Pew changed his tune. He staggered to and fro. Tap, tap, tap went his stick. He dashed here; he dashed there. Then utterly confused, he ran straight under the hooves of the leading horse and was trampled by the galloping revenue officer and his men. Pew's dying screams rang to the heaven above." (Explore the Proverbs) James Smith exhorts us - Wait for WISDOM IN TRIALS. It requires much wisdom to use trials well, so that we may glorify God in the fires, and get only good to our own souls. Every trial, properly directed, will prove a great blessing; but if not well-directed, it may prove a sore evil. James was speaking of the believer's trials when he said– "If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all men liberally, and upbraids not; and it shall be given him." We can not make ourselves wise; but God can make us so, and he is prepared to give wisdom unto all who devoutly wait upon him. The wisdom that comes from God, used in our trials, will lead us to the strong for strength, will teach us to use the promises aright, and will direct us to seek the deepening of our sanctification, before anything and everything else. A wise man in trial will be patient and calm, prayerful and hopeful, resigned and humble, and will be more concerned to have the trial made a blessing, than to have it removed. Wait, then, on the Lord for wisdom, and see that you obtain it. You may, for God in the Scripture declares– "If you will receive my words, and hide my commandments with you; so that you will incline your ear unto wisdom, and apply your heart unto understanding; yes, if you cry after knowledge, and lift up your voice for understanding; if you seek her as silver, and seek for her as for hid treasures; then shall you understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God. For the Lord gives wisdom; out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding." Hence the exhortation– "Get wisdom, get understanding. Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore, get wisdom; and with all your getting, get understanding." (Wait on the LORD) H A Ironside on Proverbs 2:10-19 - The proper attitude for one who really holds the truth is set forth in these verses. When wisdom and knowledge are embraced they give discretion that preserves from evil and guards from false ways. Two enemies are seen attacking the young man: the evil man and the strange woman. “The evil man” is the man who walks in the pride of his heart and in independence of God. This way of life seems very attractive to the young, appealing to their natural mind. To follow the evil man is to leave the straight paths of righteousness and to walk in the ways of darkness (13). But when one receives the truth of God and allows it to control his life he will be delivered from the perverse paths of the evil man. The Word of God is also given to deliver the young man from “the strange woman” (“adulteress” in niv). Again and again we catch glimpses of this strange woman flitting in and out of the book of Proverbs. Who is she? Does she speak of anything more than impurity and uncleanness? The primary meaning is clear on the face of the passages that concern her. As the enemy of morality and virtue, she seeks to ensnare the young and unwary. Forsaking the guide of her youth and forgetting the covenant of her God, she gives herself up to impure pleasures and soul-destroying lusts. Those who have been ensnared by the strange woman must live with the consequences of their unclean ways. Even sincere repentance will not erase the shameful memories. Could there be a secondary meaning in these many warnings concerning the strange woman? In the evil man we saw independence from God-rationalism gone wild. Whereas the strange woman represents false religion that eventually will be headed up in “Babylon the great, the mother of harlots” (Revelation 17:5). How devious are her ways! How subtle and deceptive her solicitations! And how truly can it be said that “her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead. (Proverbs 2 Commentary - Ironside's Notes on Selected Books) Proverbs 2:11 Discretion will guard you, Understanding will watch over you, Pr 4:6; 6:22-24; Ps 25:21; 119:9-11; Ecclesiastes 9:15-18; 10:10; Ephesians 5:15