Original Douay–Rheims AnnotationsProverbs 1
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Read Proverbs 1 in the BibleProverbs 1:24
Because I called and you refused.
[1] God vouchsafeth four benefits of grace to every man, all necessary and sufficient for his salvation: [2] 1. He calleth all by preaching, or good inspiration. [3] 2. He offereth help. [4] 3. He instructeth the ignorant what is good, that they may choose it if they will. [5] 4. And reprehendeth evil, that they may shun it. They therefore that neglect this manifold grace in this life, shall without all remedy be damned, being too late to repent in the other world. For then they shall cry and not be heard. v. 28.
- 1 Four benefits of God.
- 2 Vocation.
- 3 Help.
- 4 Instruction.
- 5 Reprehension.
Proverbs 1:33
But he that shall hear me.
Contrarywise those that accept God's grace, and cooperate therewith, shall have eternal rest and joy. ◦ The very same which S. Paul teacheth 2. Cor. 5. v. 10. Every one shall receive the proper things of the body, according as he hath done, either good or evil.
- ◦ Reward of works.
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Proverbs 1:2
Wisdom.
As well in these Sapiential books, as in other holy Scriptures, and sacred writers, the word wisdom hath three significations. [1] Sometimes it importeth the Divine Attribute called God's wisdom; sometimes supernatural wisdom given to men by the Holy Ghost; and sometimes it signifieth mere human wisdom, gotten by the natural light of reason and man's industry. [2] The first, and likewise other Divine Attributes, God's Power, Goodness, Justice, Truth, Mercy, and the like, are not qualities, or other accidents in God, as the same terms signify in creatures. For in God there in no Accident, but all in him is his Divine Substance and Essence, whose diverse Excellencies are called by such names as man's capacity can better conceive: and so God's wisdom is God himself: [3] and is appropriated to the second Person of the blessed Trinity, as Power is appropriated to God the Father, and Goodness to the Holy Ghost. In this sense chap. 3. v. 16. is said: Our Lord by wisdom foundeth the earth, &c. The second is called (Sap. 3. v. 25.) the vapour of God's power, and a pure emanation (or influence) of the glory of Almighty God, and so is a participation of Divine increated wisdom, called also divine, according to a certain analogy, or similitude of God's own wisdom, and is the principal gift of the Holy Ghost, [4] by which God is rightly known, and duly served, including all other supernal gifts and virtues, whereof is treated in these books, and to which all men are invited, with assured promise of celestial and eternal reward. [5] The third wisdom is mere human, gotten by natural wit and study, such as Philosophers have, knowing many truths, but mixt with many errors, and much ignorance, truly called worldly wisdom, serving only for this world. But the second kind which is a sparkle of God's wisdom, maketh men, otherwise ignorant and of small capacity, rightly wise indeed, the true servants of God, and inheriters of the kingdom of heaven, as these books do most copiously teach.