John Trapp on Proverbs 13:1

CHAP. XIII. Verſ. 1. A wiſe ſon heareth his Fathers inſtruction.]

HEbr. Is the inſtruction (or diſcipline) of his Father; Philoſtratus. hee was not natus ſapiens (as Apollonius) ſed factus, not born wiſe to ſalvation, but made ſo by his Fathers diſcipline, as Solomon, Prov. 4.4. See the Note there.

But a ſcorner heareth not rebuke] Or, heareth and ſcareth, as Lots ſons in law, as Elies ſons, and (afterward) Samuels. Samuel ſucceeds Eli in his croſs, as well as in his place, though not in his ſin of indulgence. God will ſhew, that grace is by gift, not by inheritance, or education. Ciceroni degenerem fuiſſe fili [illegible: 3 letters] conſtat, & ſapiens ille Socrates liberos habuit matri ſimiliores quam patri, ſaith Seneca. Cicero had a ſon nothing like him; ſo had Socrates.