John Trapp on Proverbs 1:2-3

Verſ. 2. To know Wiſdome] That is, to give others to know, to wiſe them, as Dan. 12.3. to give the knowledge of ſalvation, Luk. 1.77. to ſhew men great and mighty things which they know not, Jer. 33.3. but may here hence bee taught, better than out of Lipſius his Bee-hive, or Machiavels Spiderweb.

Verſ: 3. To receive the inſtruction] Tertullian calls the Bible (and the Proverbs by a ſpecialty) Noſtra digeſta, from the Lawyers; and others our Pundects, from them alſo. Is there not a thin veil laid over them, which is more rarified by reading, and at laſt wholly worn away▪ Surely as by much reading the Statute-book men grow worldly-wiſe; And as a friend (it is Chryſoſtomes compariſon) that is acquainted with his friend, will get out the meaning of a letter or phraſe, which another could not that is a ſtranger; ſo it is in Scripture. And herein (as one well obſerveth) the pooreſt Ideot being a ſound Chriſtian, goeth beyond the profoundeſt Clarks that are not ſanctified, that hee hath his own heart inſtead of a Commentary to help him to underſtand even the moſt needful points of the Scripture.