She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.
Written by King Solomon about one thousand years before Christ, the verse gives very practical and needed instruction for all phases of life, including business precepts intensely helpful in everyday life to those who will use them. It is to be read as practical moral and religious duty for everyday life, to be examined with the question whether the beginning of wisdom is in life.
The speaker is heavenly wisdom from above originating with God, Christ speaking in the character of Wisdom in invitations and counsels to mankind. Having built her house, which is the church of Christ, Wisdom has prepared a royal banquet, killing her beasts, mingling her wine, and furnishing her table with food, drink, and provision set out for those she invites. The rich, wholesome banquet so made ready is present truth, the commandments of God, and the testimonies of Jesus Christ.
The truth thus prepared has sublime beauty like the architecture of heaven, consistent, strong, and lovely. To the honest, zealous, sincere inquirer it multiplies charms and nourishes the soul and strengthens its powers to advance further, as summer sun and showers nourish herbs and grains, while error dries up the resources of the mind and leaves it in darkness, doubt, and barrenness like drought dries the earth.
The feast pictures an offer of wisdom and understanding to the simple and to those wanting understanding, who are urged from the highest places of the city to come, eat, drink, become wise, live, forsake the foolish, and go in the way of understanding. It is an invitation to pleasant and honorable service with princely recompense, where all may be happy guests by choosing to come. The banquet is the last gospel feast belonging to the closing hours of probation, as supper is the last meal in the day, and is the marriage supper of the Lamb, now ready and now prepared for all who will accept it. Guests are already being collected, and the voice of sweet mercy pleads Come because all things are now ready.
The merciful invitation is to be accepted while mercy lingers and there is still room, before the house is full and the door is shut. It will soon no more be heard, and those who refuse to come to the furnished table will be left to a lamentable cry.
Written by King Solomon about one thousand years before Christ, the verse gives very practical and needed instruction for all phases of life, including business precepts intensely helpful in everyday life to those who will use them. It is to be read as practical moral and religious duty for everyday life, to be examined with the question whether the beginning of wisdom is in life.
The speaker is heavenly wisdom from above originating with God, Christ speaking in the character of Wisdom in invitations and counsels to mankind. Having built her house, which is the church of Christ, Wisdom has prepared a royal banquet, killing her beasts, mingling her wine, and furnishing her table with food, drink, and provision set out for those she invites. The rich, wholesome banquet so made ready is present truth, the commandments of God, and the testimonies of Jesus Christ.
The truth thus prepared has sublime beauty like the architecture of heaven, consistent, strong, and lovely. To the honest, zealous, sincere inquirer it multiplies charms and nourishes the soul and strengthens its powers to advance further, as summer sun and showers nourish herbs and grains, while error dries up the resources of the mind and leaves it in darkness, doubt, and barrenness like drought dries the earth.
The feast pictures an offer of wisdom and understanding to the simple and to those wanting understanding, who are urged from the highest places of the city to come, eat, drink, become wise, live, forsake the foolish, and go in the way of understanding. It is an invitation to pleasant and honorable service with princely recompense, where all may be happy guests by choosing to come. The banquet is the last gospel feast belonging to the closing hours of probation, as supper is the last meal in the day, and is the marriage supper of the Lamb, now ready and now prepared for all who will accept it. Guests are already being collected, and the voice of sweet mercy pleads Come because all things are now ready.
The merciful invitation is to be accepted while mercy lingers and there is still room, before the house is full and the door is shut. It will soon no more be heard, and those who refuse to come to the furnished table will be left to a lamentable cry.