Matthew Poole and continuators on Proverbs 22:6

6. Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it .

Or, initiate or instruct.

Heb. [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word] to his way, i. e. either 1. according to his capacity. [illegible: 1 word] 2. In that course or manner of life which thou would [illegible: 1 word] him chuse and follow. Or, as one learned man renders it, in the beginning of his way, i. e. in his tender years, as soon as he is capable of instruction. Heb. in the mouth, &c. The mouth is oft put for the beginning or entrance of any place, as Gen. 29. 2. Ios. 10. 18. Prov. 8. 3. Dan. 6. 17.

To wit, not easily and ordinarily. The impressions made in childish years will remain, as hath been observed by all sorts of learned Writers. But this, as other Proverbs of like nature, are not to be understood as if this were universally and necessarily true, which Experience confutes, but because it is so for the most part, except some extraordinary cause hinder it.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1 word], ca[illegible: 1+ letters]chise.; [illegible: 1 word]. i[illegible: 1+ letters] his [illegible: 1 word].