John Trapp on Proverbs 10:8
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Proverbs10:8
Verſ. 8. The wiſe in heart ſhall receive Commandement] i.e. Submit to Gods holy Word without replies and cavils. This is check to the brave gallants of our age, which exerciſe their ripe heads and freſh wits in wreſtling with the truth of God, and take it for a glory to give it a foil. The Athenians encountred with Paul, and had argument for argument againſt him, that Chriſt was not the Saviour of the world, that hee was not riſen from the dead, &c. This ſhewed they were not wiſe in heart, though reckoned chief among the worlds wiſards.
But a prating fool ſhall fall] Or, Bee beaten; ſuch a fool was Diotrephes, 3 Joh. [non-Latin text not transcribed]. 10. Who prated or trifled againſt Saint John with malicious words, and might have been therefore ſirnamed Nugax, as Rodulphus (that ſucceeded Anſelm in the See of Canterbury) was.Godw. Catal.
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