Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Proverbs 1:21
She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, [saying],
21. in the chief place of concourse ] Lit. at the head of the noisy places ( turbarum, Vulg.). The expression head of the streets occurs Isa 51:20; Lam 2:19. Comp. at every head of the ways, Eze 16:25; the place where the street branches off and so has its head or beginning. The LXX. (with a slightly different Heb. reading) , on the top of the walls.
openings ] Rather, entering in. Just within the gate of an oriental city was the principal square, or open space, where public business was transacted and courts were held. See, for example, 1Ki 22:10; Rth 4:1.
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The chief place of concourse; where there is probability of most success.
The opening of the gates; where magistrates sit in judgment, and people are assembled. So it crieth both to the wise and to the unwise, as Paul preached, Rom 1:14.
In the city; not only in the gate, but in every part of the city. Or, in the cities, the singular number being put for the plural.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
21. The publicity furtherindicated by terms designating places of most common resort.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
She crieth in the chief place of concourse,…. Where a multitude of people meet together; the Targum is,
“on the top of palaces;”
but rather it is to be understood of the synagogues of the Jews, where Christ frequently preached; and which, from hence, they build in the highest part of the city c; and best of all the temple, whither the tribes of Israel went up to worship in great bodies, and to which the Jews daily resorted; here Christ taught publicly, as he himself says,
Joh 18:20;
in the opening of the gates; either of the city, at which people went in and out in great numbers; or of the temple, where they passed and repassed continually on account of worship; see Joh 10:23; in allusion hereunto the public worship of God’s house is signified by the gates of Zion, and also of Wisdom, Ps 87:2;
in the city she uttereth her words; the doctrines of the Gospel; even in the city of Jerusalem literally, and in other cities of Judea and Galilee, the singular being put for the plural; and figuratively in the church of God, often compared to a city; and so all these expressions of “without”, in the “streets”, in the “chief place of concourse”, “the opening of the gates”, and “the city”, may denote in general the openness and publicness of the Gospel ministry, both by Christ in his apostles, in Judea, and in the Gentile world; more especially the former;
[saying], as follows.
c Maimon. Hilchot Tephillah, c. 11. s. 2.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(plur. of , the ground-form of , from = ), “they who are making noise;” for the epithet is poetically used (Isa 22:2) as a substantive, crowded noisy streets or places. is the place from which on several sides streets go forth: cf. ras el – ain , the place where the well breaks forth; ras en – nahr , the place from which the stream divides itself; the sing. is meant distributively as little as at Pro 8:2. , if distinguished from (which also signifies cleft, breach), is the opening of the gate, the entrance by the gate. Four times the poet says that Wisdom goes forth preaching, and four times that she preaches publicly; the used in five places implies that Wisdom preaches not in the field, before the few who there are met with, but in the city, which is full of people.
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
(21) Crieth.She cannot bear to see sinners rushing madly on their doom. (Comp. Christs weeping over Jerusalem, Luk. 19:41; and Rom. 9:2, sqq; Php. 3:18, sqq.)
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Pro 1:21. In the chief place of concourse On the tops of the walls, according to the LXX; which Houbigant and Dr. Grey approve. Schultens renders it, at the head or beginning of the most frequented streets.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Pro 1:21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, [saying],
Ver. 21. In the chief place of concourse. ] Veritas non quaerit angulos. Christ, as his manner was, preached in the synagogues; Paul disputed in the market with whomsoever he met, and preached in the midst of Mars hill. Act 17:17-22 And at Rome his “bonds in Christ were manifest in all Caesar’s court, and in all other places.” Php 1:13
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
saying. The Ellipsis of this verb has frequently to be supplied. See note on Psa 109:5.
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Pro 9:3, Mat 10:27, Mat 13:2, Joh 18:20, Act 5:20
Reciprocal: Lev 15:12 – vessel Pro 8:1 – General Pro 8:33 – refuse Pro 8:34 – watching Son 3:2 – the streets Isa 45:19 – spoken Isa 55:1 – Ho Jer 7:2 – Stand
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Pro 1:21. She crieth in the chief place of concourse Where there is most probability of success. The LXX. render it, , she preacheth upon the tops of the walls, or houses, a translation which Houbigant approves. Schultens, not improperly, renders the Hebrew, , at the head, or beginning, of the most frequented streets. In the opening of the gates Where magistrates sit in judgment, and people are assembled. So she crieth, both to the wise and to the unwise, as Paul preached, Rom 1:14. In the city she uttereth her words Not only in the gate, but in every part of the city. Or, in the cities, the singular number being put for the plural.