Notes, Critical and Explanatory, on the Holy Scriptures

Shall weigh it, and speak after deliberation. What she speaks is pure truth.

Wickedness is far from her lips, because she has a deep detestation of it.

This, as understood of the divine attribute, indicates that it was inherent in God, and the rule of all His works. It is specially applied by the fathers to the second Divine Person, who is called the Wisdom of the Father, and who was with Ilim from all eternity. John i. 1.

Their bulk is not mentioned in the text.

The term signifies streets, highways; but is rendered rivers in the Syriac and Chaldee versions, as well as the Vulgate. R. says that this can be defended, inasmuch as the sacred writer contemplates the vast globe of the earth, in its original form, in which the rivers appear as streets intersecting its great districts.

p. a The highest part of the dust of the world." R. after Umbreit, thinks that the creation Of man is meant. S. " The high habitations under heaven."

Hatred is here taken for failing to love. R.