Sprueche 4:1

1 Höret, Söhne, die Unterweisung des Vaters, und merket auf, um Verstand zu kennen!

Sprueche 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.

Sprueche 4:1 In-Context

1 Höret, Söhne, die Unterweisung des Vaters, und merket auf, um Verstand zu kennen!

2 Denn gute Lehre gebe ich euch: verlasset meine Belehrung nicht.

3 Denn ein Sohn bin ich meinem Vater gewesen, ein zarter und einziger vor meiner Mutter.

4 Und er lehrte mich und sprach zu mir: Dein Herz halte meine Worte fest; beobachte meine Gebote und lebe.

5 Erwirb Weisheit, erwirb Verstand; vergiß nicht und weiche nicht ab von den Reden meines Mundes.