AN EXPOSITION OF THE THIRTEENTH CHAPTER OF THE PROVERBS.

AN EXPOSITION OF THE THIRTEENTH CHAPTER OF THE PROVERBS.

CHAPTER XIII.

Verse 1. A wise Son harkeneth to the instruction of his Father: but a scorner will hear no rebuke,

Verse 1. A wise Sonne harkeneth to the instruction of his Father: but a scorner will heare no rebuke,

A Wise Son, that is, a godly and prudent child of either sex, male, or female, son, or daughter, will receive, observe, and obey the good lessons, and counsel both of father and mother. But a scorner, that is, an obstinate, sinful person, will hear no rebuke, that is, he will be so far from profiting by the reproofs of any, though he be a friend, though a brother, though a most tender father, that he will not so much as brook, or bear it, without contempt at least, of the party which rebuketh him.

A Wise Sonne, that is, a godly and prudent child of either sex, male, or female, sonne, or daughter, will receiue, obserue, and obey the good lessons, and counsell both of father and mother. But a scorner, that is, an obstinate, sinfull person, will heare no rebuke, that is, hee will be so farre from profiting by the reproofes of any, though he be a friend, though a brother, though a most tender father, that he will not so much as brooke, or beare it, without contempt at least, of the party which rebuketh him.