On the heights beside the way, at the crossroads she takes her stand;
The will of God revealed to us for our salvation is here largely represented to us as easy to be known and understood, that none may have an excuse for their ignorance or error, and as worthy to be embraced, that none may have an excuse for their carelessness and unbelief. I.
Commenting on Proverbs 8:1-11
She standeth in the top of high places,.... To be both seen and heard, for which reason Christ went up into a mountain and preached, Mat 5:1; by the way; the roadside, to instruct and direct passengers as they go along, to show them the right way, and caution them against taking wrong ways; so did Christ, Mat 16:6; in the places of the paths...
Pro 8:1-3 The author has now almost exhausted the ethical material; for in this introduction to the Solomonic Book of Proverbs he works it into a memorial for youth, so that it is time to think of concluding the circle by bending back the end to the beginning. For as in the beginning, Pro 1:20., so also here in the end, he introduces Wisdom herself as speaking.
Commenting on Proverbs 8:1-3