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Proverbios 21:22
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El sabio escala la ciudad de los poderosos y derriba la fortaleza en que confiaban.
La ciudad de los fuertes tomó el sabio, Y derribó la fuerza en que ella confiaba.
El sabio escala la ciudad de los poderosos y derriba la fortaleza en que confiaban.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
2 Samuel 20:16-22, Ecclesiastes 7:19, Ecclesiastes 9:13-18
Reciprocal: Proverbs 24:5 - A wise Ecclesiastes 9:16 - Wisdom Daniel 2:23 - who hast
Gill's Notes on the Bible
A wise [man] scaleth the city of the mighty,.... Which makes good what is elsewhere said, that "wisdom is better than strength", Ecclesiastes 9:16; and sometimes more is done by prudence and wisdom, by art and cunning, by schemes and stratagems, than by power and force; especially in military affairs, and particularly in besieging and taking fortified cities; when one wise man, by his wisdom, may so order and manage things, as to be able, with a few under his command, to mount the walls of a city and take it, though defended by a mighty garrison in it. This may be applied to, our Lord Jesus Christ entering into the city of a man's heart, possessed by the strong man armed; overcoming him, taking from him his armour, and dividing his spoil,
Luke 11:21; compare with this Ecclesiastes 9:14;
and casteth down the strength of the confidence thereof; the strong walls, bulwarks, and such fortifications, in which the mighty in the city placed their confidence: and the like does Christ, when he enters into the heart of a sinner by his word and spirit; he destroys all its former strong confidences, and brings it into subjection to himself,
2 Corinthians 10:4.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Even in war, counsel does more than brute strength. So of the warfare which is carried on in the inner battlefield of the soul. There also wisdom is mighty to the “pulling down of strongholds” (2 Corinthians 10:4, where Paul uses the very words of the Septuagint Version of this passage), and the wise man scales and keeps the city which the strong man armed has seized and made his own.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 21:22. A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty — Wisdom is in many respects preferable to strength, even in the case of defence. See what skill does in the fortification and reduction of strong places.
