Sprueche 4:1

1 Höret, meine Kinder, die Zucht eures Vaters; merket auf, daß ihr lernt und klug werdet!

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, meine Kinder, die Zucht eures Vaters; merket auf, daß ihr lernt und klug werdet!

2 Denn ich gebe euch eine gute Lehre; verlaßt mein Gesetz nicht.

3 Denn ich war meines Vaters Sohn, ein zarter und ein einziger vor meiner Mutter.

4 Und er lehrte mich und sprach: Laß dein Herz meine Worte aufnehmen; halte meine Gebote, so wirst du leben.

5 Nimm an Weisheit, nimm an Verstand; vergiß nicht und weiche nicht von der Rede meines Mundes.