1 Wisdom hath built herChrist has prepared him a Church.house, she hath hewn out herThat is, many chief supports and principal parts of his Church, as were the patriarchs, prophets, apostles, pastors and teachers.seven pillars:
2 She hath killed her beasts; she hath mixed her wine; she hath alsoHe compares wisdom with great princes who keep open house for all who come.furnished her table.
3 She hath sent forth herMeaning, true preachers, who are not infected with man's wisdom.maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,
4 Whoever [is]He who knows his own ignorance, and is void of malice.simple, let him turn in here: [as for] him that lacketh understanding, she saith to him,
5 Come, eat of myBy meat and drink is meant the word of God, and the ministration of the sacraments, by which God nourishes his servants in his house which is the Church.bread, and drink of the wine [which] I have mixed.
6 Forsake your way, ye foolish, and ye shall liue: and walke in the way of vnderstanding.
7 He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked [man getteth] himself aFor the wicked will contemn him and labour to defame him.blot.
8 Reprove not aMeaning them who are incorrigible, which Christ calls dogs and swine: or he speaks this in comparison, not that the wicked should not be rebuked, but he shows their malice, and the small hope of the profit.scorner, lest he shall hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
9 Giue admonition to the wise, and he will be the wiser: teache a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
10 The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the Holy One [is]He shows what true understanding is, to know the will of God in his word which is meant by holy things.understanding.
11 For thy dayes shalbe multiplied by me, and the yeeres of thy life shalbe augmented.
12 If thou art wise, thou shalt be wise forYou will have the chief profit and convenience of it.thyself: but [if] thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear [it].
13 ABy the foolish woman, some understand the wicked preachers, who counterfeit the word of God: as appears in (Pro_9:16) which were the words of the true preachers as in (Pro_9:4) but their doctrine is as stolen waters: meaning that they are men's traditions, which are more pleasant to the flesh than the word of God, and therefore they themselves boast of it.foolish woman [is] clamorous: [she is] simple, and knoweth nothing.
14 But she sitteth at the doore of her house on a seate in the hie places of the citie,
15 To call them that passe by the way, that go right on their way, saying,
16 Who so is simple, let him come hither, and to him that is destitute of wisedome, shee sayth also,
17 Stollen waters are sweete, and hid bread is pleasant.
18 But he knoweth not, that ye dead are there, and that her ghestes are in the depth of hell.
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