{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/wesley/pro022.htm","path":"bib/cmt/wesley/pro022.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/wesley/pro022.htm","text":"Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley, [1754-65]\n \nProverbs 22:1\n \npro 22:1\nFavour - A good report among men, especially good men, and that hearty kindness which attends it. \nProverbs 22:2\n \npro 22:2\nMeet - They live together, and need one another. The maker - Not only as they are men, but as they are poor or rich, which difference comes from God's providence. They have one common creator, and Lord, and judge, and the one cannot despise nor grudge at the other without reflecting upon God. \nProverbs 22:3\n \npro 22:3\nThe evil - The judgment of God threatened, and approaching. Hideth - Retires to his strong tower, by prayer and repentance, puts himself under the protection of the almighty. Pass on - Carefully and securely. \nProverbs 22:6\n \npro 22:6\nDepart - Not easily and ordinarily. \nProverbs 22:7\n \npro 22:7\nIs servant - Is at his mercy, and forced to comply with his pleasure. \nProverbs 22:8\n \npro 22:8\nThe rod - That power which he used with fury shall be taken from him. \nProverbs 22:9\n \npro 22:9\nHe - Who looks upon the wants and miseries of others with compassion. \nProverbs 22:12\n \npro 22:12\nPreserve - God by the watchful eye of his providence maintains and defends. Knowledge - Men of knowledge, knowing and good men. The matters - All his hopes, enterprizes, and concerns. \nProverbs 22:14\n \npro 22:14\nThe mouth - Her fair and flattering speeches. \nProverbs 22:15\n \npro 22:15\nBound - Is fixed and settled there, as being born with him, and rooted in his very nature. \nProverbs 22:16\n \npro 22:16\nThat giveth - That prodigally casts away his estate upon those who do not need it. \nProverbs 22:17\n \npro 22:17\nMy knowledge - The knowledge of God, which I am here delivering. \nProverbs 22:18\n \npro 22:18\nFitted - Fitly expressed: thou wilt be able to discourse profitably of them. \nProverbs 22:20\n \npro 22:20\nIn counsels and knowledge - In counsels which proceed from found knowledge. \nProverbs 22:21\n \npro 22:21\nAnswer - That thou mayst be able to give solid, and satisfactory answers. \nProverbs 22:22\n \npro 22:22\nIn the gate - Under pretence of justice. \nProverbs 22:23\n \npro 22:23\nSpoil the soul - Take away not only their goods but their lives too. \nProverbs 22:29\n \npro 22:29\nBefore kings - He is fit to be employed in the affairs of princes.","title":"Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible: Proverbs: Proverbs Chapter 22","type":"page"}