Proverbi 4:1

1 Figliuoli, ascoltate l’istruzione di un padre, e state attenti a imparare il discernimento;

Proverbi 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.

Proverbi 4:1 In-Context

1 Figliuoli, ascoltate l’istruzione di un padre, e state attenti a imparare il discernimento;

2 perché io vi do una buona dottrina; non abbandonate il mio insegnamento.

3 Quand’ero ancora fanciullo presso mio padre, tenero ed unico presso mia madre,

4 egli mi ammaestrava e mi diceva: "Il tuo cuore ritenga le mie parole; osserva i miei comandamenti, e vivrai.

5 Acquista sapienza, acquista intelligenza; non dimenticare le parole della mia bocca, e non te ne sviare;