the Week of Proper 10 / Ordinary 15
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Amsal 28:20
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Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
faithful: Proverbs 20:6, 1 Samuel 22:14, Nehemiah 7:2, Psalms 101:6, Psalms 112:4-9, Luke 12:42, Luke 16:1, Luke 16:10-12, 1 Corinthians 4:2-5, Revelation 2:10, Revelation 2:13
but: Proverbs 28:22, Proverbs 13:11, Proverbs 20:21, Proverbs 23:4, 2 Kings 5:20-27, 1 Timothy 6:9, 1 Timothy 6:10
innocent: or, unpunished, Proverbs 17:5, *marg.
Reciprocal: Genesis 34:23 - General Joshua 8:2 - only the spoil 2 Kings 22:7 - they dealt faithfully 2 Chronicles 34:12 - faithfully Proverbs 10:6 - Blessings Jeremiah 17:11 - he that
Cross-References
And so Isahac called Iacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and sayde vnto hym: See thou take not a wyfe of the daughters of Chanaan:
Arise, and get thee to Mesopotamia, to the house of Bethuel thy mothers father, and there take thee a wyfe of the daughters of Laban thy mothers brother.
And God almyghtie blesse thee, and make thee to encrease, & multiplie thee, that thou mayest be a number of people:
And that Iacob had obeyed his father and mother, and was gone to Mesopotamia:
Iacob departed from Beer-seba, and went towarde Haran.
And he dreamed, and beholde there stoode a lather vpo the earth, and the toppe of it reached vp to heauen: and see, the angels of God went vp & downe vpon it.
And see, I am with thee, and wyll be thy keper in all [places] whyther thou goest, and wyll bryng thee agayne into this lande: For I wyl not leaue thee, vntyll I haue made good that whiche I haue promised thee.
And Iacob vowed a vowe, saying: Yf God wyll be with me, and wyll kepe me in this iourney in which I go, and wyll geue me bread to eate, and clothes to put on:
I am the God of Bethel, where thou annoyntedst the stone set vp on an ende, and where thou vowedst a vowe vnto me: nowe therefore aryse, and get thee out of this countrey, and returne vnto the lande where thou wast borne.
And vowed a vowe, and sayd: O Lord of hoastes, if thou wilt loke on the trouble of thyne handmayde and remembre me, and not forget thyne hand mayde, but geue vnto thyne handmayde a man childe, I will geue him vnto the Lorde all the dayes of his lyfe, and there shall no rasor come vpon his head.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
A faithful man shall abound with blessings,.... Or, "a man of faithfulness" u. A very faithful man, that is truly so; that is so in a moral sense; true to his work, makes good his promises, fulfils his contracts, abides by the obligations he lays himself under; is faithful in every trust reposed in him, be it greater or lesser matters, in every station in which it is, and throughout the whole course of his life. Such a man abounds with the blessings and praises of men; all value him, and speak well of him: and with the blessings of divine Providence; he is "much [in] blessings" w, as it may be rendered; as in receiving blessings from God, so in giving them to men; such a man is usually charitable and beneficent. And it may be understood of one that is faithful, in a spiritual and evangelic sense; for of such characters are the followers of the Lamb, Revelation 17:14. It is in the original, "a man of truths" x; one that has the truth of grace in him; that knows the grace of God in truth; with whom the truth of the Gospel is; who has learnt it, known it, embraced it, values it, and abides by it; and who has a concern with Christ, who is the truth, who is formed, lives, and dwells in his heart; of whom he has made a good profession, and holds it fast, and whom he cleaves unto. The character of "faithful" belongs both to the true ministers of Christ, who preach the pure Gospel, and the whole of it; who seek not to please men, but God; and not themselves, and their own glory, but the things of Christ, and his glory; and continue to do so in the face of all opposition: and to private Christians, the faithful in Christ Jesus; who truly believe in him, stand by his truths, abide by his ordinances, and are faithful to one another, and continue so till death: these abound with the blessings of the covenant of grace, with all spiritual blessings in Christ, with the fulness of the blessing of the Gospel of Christ; they have an abundance of grace in them, given them in conversion, faith, hope, love, humility, and many other graces, in the exercise of which they are made to abound; and they have an abundance of blessings of grace bestowed on them, pardon of sin, a justifying righteousness, adoption, meetness for and right unto eternal life; they have Christ, and all things along with him; so that they may be truly said to have all things, and abound;
but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent; he that is over anxious, and immoderately desirous of being rich, and pursues every method of obtaining his desires, with all his might and main; that labours night and day for it; though he takes no criminal nor unlawful methods, properly so called, nor does he do anything injurious to others, yet he is not innocent; that too much anxiety in him is criminal; nor is he free from covetousness; see Proverbs 23:4; and if he uses any unjust and unlawful means to acquire wealth, and resolves to be rich, right or wrong, "per fas, per nefas", he shall not be innocent, neither before God nor men: so the Targum renders it,
"he that runs into iniquity, that he may be rich;''
and indeed when a man hastily, or in a short time, becomes rich, though he cannot be directly charged with fraud and injustice, yet he is not innocent in the minds of men, or free from their suspicious and jealousies of him. A man that makes haste to be rich is opposed to him that is faithful and true to his word and contracts, and is the same that Juvenal y calls "avarus properans"; see 1 Timothy 6:9.
u איש אמונות "vir fidelitatum", Vatablus, Merceras, Piscator, Gejerus, Michaelis. w רב ברכות "multus benedictionibus", Montanus, Vatablus, Baynus, Michaeiis. x "Vir veritatum", Montanus. y Satyr. 14. v. 178.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Not the possession of wealth, nor even the acquisition of it, is evil, but the eager haste of covetousness.
Shall not be innocent - Better, as in the margin, in contrast with the many “blessings” of the “faithful.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 28:20. He that maketh haste to be rich — See Proverbs 13:11; Proverbs 20:21.
