Proverbs 9:1 (BSB)
Wisdom has built her house; she has carved out her seven pillars.
From Proverbs 9. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Proverbs 9:1
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 9:1-12: Wisdom is here introduced as a magnificent and munificent queen, very great and very generous; that Word of God is this Wisdom in which God makes known his goodwill towards men; God the Word is this Wisdom, to whom the Father has committed all judgment.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 9:1: Wisdom hath builded her house,.... Or "Wisdoms": of which see Pro 1:20; Christ, the Wisdom of God, is meant, in whom and from whom all wisdom is. Various are the opinions concerning this house built by him. Some take it to be the whole circle of sciences, and the seven pillars to be the seven liberal ones, as Aben Ezra; though rather, as others, it...
- Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 9:1: Wisdom hath built her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars: (a) Christ has prepared him a Church. (b) That is, many chief supports and principal parts of his Church, as were the patriarchs, prophets, apostles, pastors and teachers.
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 9:1: Pro 9:1 Regarding חכמות, vid., at Pro 1:20. It is a plur. excellentiae, which is a variety of the plur. extensivus. Because it is the expression of a plural unity, it stands connected (as for the most part also אלהים, Deus) with the sing. of the predicate. The perfects enumerate all that Wisdom has done to prepare for her invitation. If we had a parable before us, the perf.