Geneva Bible Notes: Proverbs 9

Proverbs 9:1 (b) That is, many chief staies and principal partes of his Church, as were the Partriarkes, Prophetes, Apostles, Pastors & Doctors.

Proverbs 9:1 (a) Christ hathe prepared him a Church.

Proverbs 9:1 (!) Wisdome calleth all to her feast.

Proverbs 9:2 (c) He compareth wisdome with great princes that kepe open house for all that come.

Proverbs 9:3 (d) Meaning true preachers, which are not infected with mans wisdome.

Proverbs 9:4 (e) He that knoweth his owne ignorance and is voide of malice.

Proverbs 9:5 (f) By the meat and drinke, is ment the worde of God and the minsitrations of the sacraments, whereby God nourisheth his seruants in his house, which is the Church.

Proverbs 9:7 (g) For the wicked wil contemne him & labour to diffame him.

Proverbs 9:7 (!) The scorner wil not be corrected.

Proverbs 9:8 (h) Meaning, them that are incorrigible, which Christ caleth dogs & swine: or he speaketh this in comparison, not that the wicked shuld not be rebuked, but he sheweth their malice, and the smale hope of profite.

Proverbs 9:10 (i) He sheweth what true vnderstanding is to know the wil of God in his worde, which is ment by holie things.

Proverbs 9:10 (!) The feare of God.

Proverbs 9:12 (k) Thou shalt haue the chief profite, and comoditie thereof.

Proverbs 9:13 (!) The conditions of the harlot.

Proverbs 9:13 (l) By the foolish woman, some vnderstand, the wicked preachers, who conterfait the worde of God, as appeareth {vers. 16}, which were the wordes of the true prachers, as {vers. 4}; but their doctrine is but as stollen waters: meaning that they are but mens traditions, which are more pleasant to the flesh then the worde of God: and therefore they them selues boast thereof.