My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
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Gill's Exposition
My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold,.... This is said in allusion to the fruit that grows on trees, Wisdom, or Christ, being a tree of life; see Gill on Pro 3:18; and so he is compared…
Barnes' Notes
Gold - The “choice, fine gold” of margin reference. The “fine gold” in the second clause is a different word, and perhaps represents gold extracted from the ore.
Wisdom here is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge; it is Christ in the word and Christ in the heart, not only Christ revealed to us, but Christ revealed in us. It is…
Cambridge Bible
gold … silver Comp. Pro 3:14.
revenue Or, increase, R.V. marg., preserving the figure of fruitin the parallel clause. γενήματα, LXX.; genimina, Vulg.
Pro 8:22-31. Her august claims.
Wisdom appeals…
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