{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/wesley/pro020.htm","path":"bib/cmt/wesley/pro020.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/wesley/pro020.htm","text":"Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley, [1754-65]\n \nProverbs 20:1\n \npro 20:1\nA mocker - Wine immoderately drunk makes men mockers. Raging - Makes men full of rage. \nProverbs 20:2\n \npro 20:2\nThe fear - The terror which the wrath of a king causes. \nProverbs 20:3\n \npro 20:3\nMeddling - Is always ready to begin strife, and obstinate in the continuance of it. \nProverbs 20:5\n \npro 20:5\nCounsel - Designs of doing something of moment. Deep water - Is secret and hard to be discovered. \nProverbs 20:8\n \npro 20:8\nHis eyes - With his very looks, or by his diligent inspection into affairs. \nProverbs 20:10\n \npro 20:10\nDivers - One greater for shew and one lesser for use. \nProverbs 20:11\n \npro 20:11\nIs known - The future disposition of a man may be probably conjectured from his childish manners. \nProverbs 20:13\n \npro 20:13\nOpen - Shake off sloth and betake thyself to thy employment with diligence and vigour. \nProverbs 20:15\n \npro 20:15\nThe lips - But wise speeches are of far greater worth. \nProverbs 20:16\n \npro 20:16\nTake - As a pledge, without which he ought not to be trusted. Of him - That is surety. \nProverbs 20:18\n \npro 20:18\nEstablished - The way to bring our purposes to good effect is to manage them with serious consideration. \nProverbs 20:20\n \npro 20:20\nLamp - His name and memory shall utterly perish. \nProverbs 20:24\n \npro 20:24\nHis way - What the issue of his designs will be. \nProverbs 20:25\n \npro 20:25\nA snare - It brings guilt upon him. After - After a man has made vows to enquire for ways to break them. \nProverbs 20:26\n \npro 20:26\nThe wheel - As the cart - wheel was anciently turned over the sheaves to beat the corn out of them. He punishes them as their offences deserve. \nProverbs 20:27\n \npro 20:27\nThe spirit - The reasonable soul. The candle - Is a clear and glorious light set up in man for his information and direction. Of the Lord - So called because it comes from God in a more immediate manner than the body, Ecc 12:7, and because it is in God's stead, to observe and judge all our actions. Searching - Discerning not only his outward actions, which are visible to others, but his most inward thoughts and affections. The belly is here put for the heart, as it is frequently. \nProverbs 20:30\n \npro 20:30\nThe blueness - Grievous wounds, which make men black and blue; or severe punishments. Cleanseth - Are the means to reclaim a wicked man, and to purge out his corruption. The belly - Of the heart. Grievous wounds or stripes cleanse not only the outward man by keeping it from evil actions, but even the inward man, by expelling or subduing vile affections: which is a great and blessed benefit of afflictions.","title":"Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible: Proverbs: Proverbs Chapter 20","type":"page"}