Sent out her maidens: Several older commentators see here an allusion to those who would preach the gospel. Some direct three parts of water to one of wine some five parts and Pliny mentions some wines that required twenty waters: but the most common proportions appear to have been three parts of water to two of wine.” (Clarke) “Among the ancient Jews, Greeks, and Romans, wine was rarely drank without being mingled with water and among ancient writers we find several ordinances for this. Hath also furnished her table with all necessaries, and now waits for the guests.” (Poole) With water, as they used to do in those hot countries, partly for refreshment, and partly for wholesomeness whereby also may be intimated that wisdom teacheth us temperance in the use of our comforts. With spices, to make it strong and delightful, this mixed wine being mentioned as the best, Proverbs 23:29,30. Genesis 18:7 Judges 6:19 1 Samuel 25:11), but Wisdom is an extraordinary woman.” (Waltke) Has slaughtered her meat: “Slaughtering, like the difficult and responsible activity of building a house, was normally a man’s job (cf. All this imagery lets the simpleton know that what wisdom has to offer is marvelous.” (Ross) “So just as one would prepare a banquet and invite guests, wisdom prepares to press her appeal. Wisdom offers the simple and he who lacks understanding her provision, partnership, and protection. Come, eat of my bread: The customs and ethics of hospitality in the ancient near east made this invitation even more meaningful. Pillars prophets, and apostles, and ministers of holy things, which in Scripture are called pillars, as Galatians 2:9, and elsewhere.” (Poole)Ĭ. many pillars whereby is intimated both the beauty and the stability of the church.
Through the centuries, various commentators have not been able to resist seeing some symbolic meaning in her seven pillars. Hewn out her seven pillars: The primary idea is that wisdom’s house is large, well-appointed, and unshakable. Built her house: Adam Clarke described the general understanding of this figure from the early church fathers and medieval theologians: “The house built by wisdom is the holy humanity of Jesus Christ the seven pillars are the seven sacraments, or the seven gifts of the Holy Ghost, or the whole of the apostles, preachers, and ministers of the Church the slain beasts are the sacrifice of Christ’s body upon the cross and the bread and mingled wine are the bread and wine in the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper!” Of this, Clarke wrote: “men have produced strange creatures of their own brain, by way of explanation.”ī. “Hebrew, Wisdoms, in the plural and this, either honoris causa, for honour’s sake, or else by an ellipsis, as if the whole of it were ‘wisdom of wisdoms.’” John Trapp wrote that wisdom here is literally in the plural. Now Solomon pictures wisdom as a woman of generous hospitality who invites all ( Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!). Wisdom has built her house: Proverbs 8 described wisdom as a woman with blessings and benefits for those who listened and obeyed. “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!”Īs for him who lacks understanding, she says to him,Ī. She cries out from the highest places of the city,
Proverbs 9 – Wisdom’s Feast and Folly’s Funeral A.
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