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A Commentary on Proverbs - Gordon College
A Commentary ON Proverbs Charles Bridges New York/Pittsburgh: R. Carter, 1847. PREFACE. PROVERBIAL teaching is one of the most ancient forms of instruction. It was well adapted to the rudeness and simplicity of the first ages, when books were few, and philosophy little understood. The mind, unpractised to the slow process of reasoning, would be much more easily arrested by terse sentences, expressing a striking sentiment in the fewest words. The wise man himself has given the best definition of these sententious maxims. Their elegance he describes under the figure of "apples of gold in pictures (network) of silver.
A COMMENTARY ON PROVERBS Charles Bridges New York/Pittsburgh: R. Carter, 1847. PREFACE. ... ters of the Book of Proverbs present us with a most interesting specimen of "acceptable words." There is in them an inimitable union of admonitory fidelity, and enticing and
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