Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Proverbs 4:1-2
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Proverbs4:1-2
CHAPTER 4
Pr 4:1-27. To an earnest call for attention to his teachings, the writer adds a commendation of wisdom, preceded and enforced by the counsels of his father and teacher. To this he adds a caution (against the devices of the wicked), and a series of exhortations to docility, integrity, and uprightness.
1-2. (Compare Pr 1:8).
to know--in order to know.
doctrine--the matter of learning (Pr 1:5), such as he had received (La 3:1).
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