Proverbs 8:32

Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children,.... Children of his and his Father, with whom his delights were; predestinated to the adoption of children; children of the covenant and promise, given to…

The old exhortation with a new force. The counsels are no longer those of prudence and human experience, but of a Wisdom eternal as Yahweh, ordering all things.

We have here the application of Wisdom's discourse; the design and tendency of it is to bring us all into an entire subjection to the laws of religion, to make us wise and good, not to fill our heads…

Pro 8:32-36. The consequent Appeal of Wisdom

32. Now, therefore Because I give, and am, all this; and because in and from their first creation my delight was and is with the sons of men.

O ye children…