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geneva@Proverbs:9:1 @ Wisdom hath built her (note:)Christ has prepared him a Church.(:note) house, she hath hewn out her That is, many chief supports and principal parts of his Church, as were the patriarchs, prophets, apostles, pastors and teachers. seven pillars:

geneva@Proverbs:9:2 @ She hath killed her beasts; she hath mixed her wine; she hath also (note:)He compares wisdom with great princes who keep open house for all who come.(:note) furnished her table.

geneva@Proverbs:9:3 @ She hath sent forth her (note:)Meaning, true preachers, who are not infected with man's wisdom.(:note) maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,

geneva@Proverbs:9:4 @ Whoever [is] (note:)He who knows his own ignorance, and is void of malice.(:note) simple, let him turn in here: [as for] him that lacketh understanding, she saith to him,

geneva@Proverbs:9:5 @ Come, eat of my (note:)By 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.(:note) bread, and drink of the wine [which] I have mixed.

geneva@Proverbs:9:6 @ Forsake your way, ye foolish, and ye shall liue: and walke in the way of vnderstanding.

geneva@Proverbs:9:7 @ He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked [man getteth] himself a (note:)For the wicked will contemn him and labour to defame him.(:note) blot.

geneva@Proverbs:9:8 @ Reprove not a (note:)Meaning 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.(:note) scorner, lest he shall hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

geneva@Proverbs:9:9 @ Giue admonition to the wise, and he will be the wiser: teache a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.

geneva@Proverbs:9:10 @ The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the Holy One [is] (note:)He shows what true understanding is, to know the will of God in his word which is meant by holy things.(:note) understanding.

geneva@Proverbs:9:11 @ For thy dayes shalbe multiplied by me, and the yeeres of thy life shalbe augmented.

geneva@Proverbs:9:12 @ If thou art wise, thou shalt be wise for (note:)You will have the chief profit and convenience of it.(:note) thyself: but [if] thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear [it].

geneva@Proverbs:9:13 @ A (note:)By 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.(:note) foolish woman [is] clamorous: [she is] simple, and knoweth nothing.

geneva@Proverbs:9:14 @ But she sitteth at the doore of her house on a seate in the hie places of the citie,

geneva@Proverbs:9:15 @ To call them that passe by the way, that go right on their way, saying,

geneva@Proverbs:9:16 @ Who so is simple, let him come hither, and to him that is destitute of wisedome, shee sayth also,

geneva@Proverbs:9:17 @ Stollen waters are sweete, and hid bread is pleasant.

geneva@Proverbs:9:18 @ But he knoweth not, that ye dead are there, and that her ghestes are in the depth of hell.

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