Study 0 From The Book of Proverbs Is: Introduction
Proverbs 1:7 provides the key to the book and
to the whole of the Wisdom Literature (Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes). It all
starts from the creed of one God—Jehovah, or the Lord—and wisdom is to know and
do His will. The term ‘proverb’ has the double meaning of a short parable and a
pithy saying.
The proverbs are all intensely practical,
covering the human race and the whole of its activity, aiming at giving
‘knowledge and discretion’, or the building up of the ‘perfect man’ by fixing
truth in the memory. As expressing
eternal spiritual principles many of them can receive their full meaning only
when applied to the believer in Christ.
