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Proverbs 1:21

Proverbs 1:21

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

She crieth in the chief place of concourse,.... Where a multitude of people meet together; the Targum is,"on the top of palaces;''but rather it is to be understood of the synagogues of the Jews, where Christ frequently preached; and which, from hence, they build in the highest part of the city ; and best of all the temple, whither the tribes of Israel went up to worship in great bodies, and to which the Jews daily resorted; here Christ taught publicly, as he himself says, ;in the opening of the gates; either of the city, at which people went in and out in great numbers; or of the temple, where they passed and repassed continually on account of worship; see ; in allusion hereunto the public worship of God's house is signified by the gates of Zion, and also of Wisdom, ;in the city she uttereth her words; the doctrines of the Gospel; even in the city of Jerusalem literally, and in other cities of Judea and Galilee, the singular being put for the plural; and figuratively in the church of God, often compared to a city; and so all these expressions of "without", in the "streets", in the "chief place of concourse", "the opening of the gates", and "the city", may denote in general the openness and publicness of the Gospel ministry, both by Christ in his apostles, in Judea, and in the Gentile world; more especially the former;[saying], as follows.

Maimon. Hilchot Tephillah, c. 11. s.

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