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Ancient Wisdom for a Modern World
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Articles in this Series
Wise words from the book of Proverbs
Can a man take fire unto his bosom and not be burned?Proverbs 6. 27 Surely no one would be so daft as to pick up a handful of burning coals from the embers of a fire and place them on one’s chest.To d…
Ian Rees
2004 Volume 59 Issue 2
Young Precious Seed
Wise words from the book of Proverbs
‘If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty give him water to drink. For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee’, Prov. 25. 21-22. ‘Hea…
Ian Rees
2004 Volume 59 Issue 3
Young Precious Seed
Wise words from the book of Proverbs
‘Let another man praise thee and not thine own mouth; a stranger and not thine own lips’, Prov. 27. 2. There is surely nothing more insufferable than having to listen to someone who is full of himsel…
Ian Rees
2004 Volume 59 Issue 4
Young Precious Seed
Wise words from the book of Proverbs
As a door turns upon its hinges, so does a sluggard upon his bed, Prov. 26. 14. The sluggard in the Bible is a tragic-comic character, one who is lazy to the point of ridicule and full of excuses, man…
Ian Rees
2005 Volume 60 Issue 1
Young Precious Seed
Wise words from the book of Job
‘I have escaped by the skin of my teeth’, Job 19. 20 The English idiom ‘escaped by the skin of one’s teeth’ is derived from this graphic expression in the book of Job. One of the main themes of the bo…
Ian Rees
2005 Volume 60 Issue 2
Young Precious Seed
Wise words from the book of Job
Better a dinner of herbs where love is than a stalled ox and hatred therewith Which of us has not preferred a simple meal with good companions to a feast with those with whom we do not get on? The for…
Ian Rees
2005 Volume 60 Issue 3
Young Precious Seed
Wise words from the book of Proverbs
He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it, Prov. 11. 15. A friend of mine, with his wife, moved to Bath a while ago. John had emigrated from Botswana to the UK to read for a post-graduate de…
Ian Rees
2005 Volume 60 Issue 4
Young Precious Seed
Wise words from the book of Proverbs
A soft answer turneth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger, Proverbs 15. 1 The natural thing to do when someone is angry with you is to reply in anger: yet how often we regret the words once …
Ian Rees
2006 Volume 61 Issue 1
Young Precious Seed
Wise words from the book of Proverbs
Favour is deceitful and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised, Proverbs 31. 30 The NIV translates the first part of this proverb as, ‘Charm is deceptive and beauty i…
Ian Rees
2006 Volume 61 Issue 2
Young Precious Seed
Wise words from the book of Proverbs
‘For him that is joined to all living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion’, Eccles. 9. 4. To understand where Solomon is coming from in the Ecclesiastes is to realize that he is…
Ken Rudge
2006 Volume 61 Issue 3
Young Precious Seed
Wise words from the book of Proverbs
‘The words of a talebearer are as wounds [dainty morsels], and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly’, Prov. 18. 8. This little proverb is so important that it is stated twice, here and …
Ian Rees
2006 Volume 61 Issue 4
Young Precious Seed
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