Wisdom Invites Guests to Her Feast Under Seven PillarsBible World
9:4Proverbs 9:4
Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
The saying was written by King Solomon about one thousand years before Christ. The speaker is heavenly wisdom from above, originating with the immortal, invisible, only wise God, and not the wisdom of this world. The speaker is Christ in the character of Wisdom, giving invitation and counsel to mankind. Wisdom is a cherub full of love who descended from above.
Wisdom cries openly from the highest places of the city, calling the simple and those who lack understanding, who are starving, to turn aside and come in. The place to turn into is the house Wisdom has built, which is the church of Christ built of lively stones on the foundation of the apostles and prophets with Jesus Christ the chief cornerstone, and its seven pillars are the seven states of the church from the apostolic church to Laodicea. In that house a feast is prepared and guests are already being gathered, a royal banquet with furnished table, bread and wine, rich and wholesome food, and Wisdom cries to the invited to haste and taste and eat and drink.
The food is truth that is sublime and beautiful like the architecture of heaven, consistent and strong and lovely, namely present truth, the commandments of God and the testimonies of Jesus Christ, giving light and understanding to the simple. To the honest, zealous, sincere inquirer Wisdom multiplies charms, and her gifts nourish the soul, strengthen its powers to advance further and make the simple wise, as summer sun and showers nourish herbs and grain, while error dries up the resources of the mind and leaves it in darkness and doubt and barrenness. The call is an invitation to pleasant and honorable service with a princely reward, where all may be happy guests if they choose to come, forsake the foolish, live, and go in the way of understanding.
The furnished banquet is the marriage supper of the Lamb. The feast is the last gospel feast in the closing hours of probation, the supper time at the end of the day, and the call is the last call while mercy lingers, sounded together with the Spirit and the bride saying Come, gathering guests until the house is full. Those who enter in the way of understanding will live and be gathered home at Jesus' coming, but after the Master rises and shuts the door many will seek to enter and shall not be able, and a famine of hearing the word of the Lord will come.
Advocates of competing philosophies imitate this invitation, each claiming to offer the way and the truth and inviting people to join, and their conflicting claims create bewildering discord. The verse belongs to very practical and needed instruction for all phases of life, including business precepts intensely helpful in everyday life to those who will use them, to be studied as a practical rule of life in the light of Scripture examples, read more slowly than history and thought over for its deep philosophy. The closing part of the chapter gives instruction that should take hold on the heart of both men and women to warn them against the sins condemned there, though it is not well suited to be read in a promiscuous assembly of men and women.
The saying was written by King Solomon about one thousand years before Christ. The speaker is heavenly wisdom from above, originating with the immortal, invisible, only wise God, and not the wisdom of this world. The speaker is Christ in the character of Wisdom, giving invitation and counsel to mankind. Wisdom is a cherub full of love who descended from above.
Wisdom cries openly from the highest places of the city, calling the simple and those who lack understanding, who are starving, to turn aside and come in. The place to turn into is the house Wisdom has built, which is the church of Christ built of lively stones on the foundation of the apostles and prophets with Jesus Christ the chief cornerstone, and its seven pillars are the seven states of the church from the apostolic church to Laodicea. In that house a feast is prepared and guests are already being gathered, a royal banquet with furnished table, bread and wine, rich and wholesome food, and Wisdom cries to the invited to haste and taste and eat and drink.
The food is truth that is sublime and beautiful like the architecture of heaven, consistent and strong and lovely, namely present truth, the commandments of God and the testimonies of Jesus Christ, giving light and understanding to the simple. To the honest, zealous, sincere inquirer Wisdom multiplies charms, and her gifts nourish the soul, strengthen its powers to advance further and make the simple wise, as summer sun and showers nourish herbs and grain, while error dries up the resources of the mind and leaves it in darkness and doubt and barrenness. The call is an invitation to pleasant and honorable service with a princely reward, where all may be happy guests if they choose to come, forsake the foolish, live, and go in the way of understanding.
The furnished banquet is the marriage supper of the Lamb. The feast is the last gospel feast in the closing hours of probation, the supper time at the end of the day, and the call is the last call while mercy lingers, sounded together with the Spirit and the bride saying Come, gathering guests until the house is full. Those who enter in the way of understanding will live and be gathered home at Jesus' coming, but after the Master rises and shuts the door many will seek to enter and shall not be able, and a famine of hearing the word of the Lord will come.
Advocates of competing philosophies imitate this invitation, each claiming to offer the way and the truth and inviting people to join, and their conflicting claims create bewildering discord. The verse belongs to very practical and needed instruction for all phases of life, including business precepts intensely helpful in everyday life to those who will use them, to be studied as a practical rule of life in the light of Scripture examples, read more slowly than history and thought over for its deep philosophy. The closing part of the chapter gives instruction that should take hold on the heart of both men and women to warn them against the sins condemned there, though it is not well suited to be read in a promiscuous assembly of men and women.