Provérbios 4:1

1 Ouvi, filhos, a instrução do pai, e estai atentos para conhecerdes o entendimento.

Provérbios 4:1 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 4:1

Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father
Either of God their father, as Gersom interprets it; or rather of Solomon their father: and so he recommends his instruction from the relation he stood in to them; for, since he was their father, he would give them no bad instruction; and, since they were his children, they ought to receive it: by whom are meant, not his children in a natural sense, or the children of his body; but his disciples, such who applied to him for knowledge, and whom he undertook to learn; and attend to know understanding;
what would serve to enlighten, enlarge, improve, and inform their understandings; what would lead them into the knowledge and understanding of things divine and spiritual, and which would be worth knowing; and of having their understandings stored and enriched with.

Provérbios 4:1 In-Context

1 Ouvi, filhos, a instrução do pai, e estai atentos para conhecerdes o entendimento.

2 Pois eu vos dou boa doutrina; não abandoneis o meu ensino.

3 Quando eu era filho aos pés de meu, pai, tenro e único em estima diante de minha mãe,

4 ele me ensinava, e me dizia: Retenha o teu coração as minhas palavras; guarda os meus mandamentos, e vive.

5 Adquire a sabedoria, adquire o entendimento; não te esqueças nem te desvies das palavras da minha boca.