he taught me and said to me, “Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live.
Here we have, I. The invitation which Solomon gives to his children to come and receive instruction from him (Pro 4:1, Pro 4:2): Hear, you children, the instruction of a father. That is, 1. "Let my own children, in the first place, receive and give good heed to those instructions which I set down for the use of others also." Note, Magistrates and ministers, who...
Commenting on Proverbs 4:1-13
He taught me also, and said unto me,.... The Targum is, "they taught me,'' his father and his mother; and so the Septuagint version, "who said and taught me;'' and the Arabic version, "they both taught me, and said unto me;'' but in the Hebrew it is singular, and is restrained to the father.
He taught--or directed me. retain--as well as receive. keep . . . and live--observe, that you may live (Pro 7:2).