Matthew Poole Commentary - Proverbs 1:8 - 1:8

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Proverbs 1:8 - 1:8


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My son; he speaks to his scholars with paternal authority and affection, to make them more attentive and obedient. Teachers among the Hebrews and others were commonly called



fathers, and their scholars their sons. The instruction of thy father; his good and wholesome counsels, but not such as are contrary to God’s law, Pro_19:27. The law of thy mother; those pious instructions which thy mother instilled into thee in thy tender years. See Pro_31:1 2Ti_1:5 3:14,15. This he adds, because children, when grown up, are very prone to slight their mother’s advice, because of the infirmity of their sex, and because they have not that dependence upon and expectation from their mothers which they have from their fathers.