Matthew Poole and continuators on Proverbs 1:8

8. My son , hear the instruction of thy father , and forsake not the law of thy mother .

He speaks to his Scholars with paternal Authority and Affection to make them more attentive and obedient. Teachers among the Hebrews and others, were commonly called Fathers, and their Scholars their Sons.

His good and wholsome Counsels, but not such as are contrary to Gods Law, Prov. 19. 27.

Those pious instructions which thy Mother instilled into thee in thy tender years. See Prov. 31. 1. 2 T[illegible: 1+ letters]m. 1. 5. & 3. 14, 15. This he adds, because Children when grown up, are very prone to sleight their Mothers advice, because of the infirmity of their Sex, and because they have not that dependence upon, and Expectation from their Mothers which they have from their Fathers.

Marginal references: Chap. 6. 20.