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Introduction to Proverbs

April 1st 2009

Solomon's Proverbs (his in the main) were written to make young men with ears and eager for understanding wise in the ways of life here and now and prepared for life hereafter. Wisdom is not a word we commonly hear in our culture and that rather regular omission from our vocabulary is telling about our cultural value system.

The proverbs are generalized axioms about the way life works and works out in God's moral order. I say 'generalized' because that is the limit of the Spirit's truth intention. Except in instances where they express an absolute truth ...

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