Bridges, Charles An Exposition of the Book of Proverbs
Bridges An Exposition of the Book of Proverbs
By Charles Bridges
PREFACE
Proverbial teaching is one of the most ancient forms of instruction. It was well adapted to the rudeness and simplicity of the first ages, when books were few, and philosophy little understood. The mind, unpracticed to the slow process of reasoning, would be much more easily arrested by terse sentences, expressing a striking sentiment in the fewest words. The wise man himself has given the best definition of these sententious maxims. Their elegance he describes under the figure of “apples of gold in pictures of silver.” Their force and permanent impression are “as goads and nails fastened by the Master of assemblies”—driven closely home to the heart and conscience, and fastened in the memories by the appointed instructor of the people……
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