Geneva Bible Notes (1560)Proverbs 9

^{1 b} That is, many chief staies and principal partes of his Church, as were the Partriarkes, Prophetes, Apostles, Pastors & Doctors.

^{1 a} Christ hathe prepared him a Church.

^{1 !} Wisdome calleth all to her feast.

^{2 c} He compareth wisdome with great princes that kepe open house for all that come.

^{3 d} Meaning true preachers, which are not infected with mans wisdome.

^{4 e} He that knoweth his owne ignorance and is voide of malice.

^{5 f} By the meat and drinke, is ment the worde of God and the minsitrations of the sacraments, whereby God nourisheth his seruants in his house, which is the Church.

^{7 g} For the wicked wil contemne him & labour to diffame him.

^{7 !} The scorner wil not be corrected.

^{8 h} Meaning, them that are incorrigible, which Christ caleth dogs & swine: or he speaketh this in comparison, not that the wicked shuld not be rebuked, but he sheweth their malice, and the smale hope of profite.

^{10 i} He sheweth what true vnderstanding is to know the wil of God in his worde, which is ment by holie things.

^{10 !} The feare of God.

^{12 k} Thou shalt haue the chief profite, and comoditie thereof.

^{13 !} The conditions of the harlot.

^{13 l} By the foolish woman, some vnderstand, the wicked preachers, who conterfait the worde of God, as appeareth {vers. 16}, which were the wordes of the true prachers, as {vers. 4}; but their doctrine is but as stollen waters: meaning that they are but mens traditions, which are more pleasant to the flesh then the worde of God: and therefore they them selues boast thereof.