Proverbs: An Introduction and Commentary (TOTC)

by Derek Kidner

Publisher:

IVP

, 1964

Overview

Proverbs—a book full of wisdom, and yet a book demanding all one's wisdom to understand. Derek Kidner has not only provided a running commentary on the whole of Proverbs, but has also included two helpful study aids: a set of subject guides that bring together teaching scattered throughout the book, and a short concordance that helps locate lost sayings (in territory notoriously hard to search) and encourages further subject studies. In short, this volume is a wise person's guide to wisdom.

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Contents

Top Highlights

“True wisdom and true prophecy both started from the fear of the Lord, and both worked hard to make Israel think.” (Page 15)

“So the secondary purpose of Proverbs is to introduce the reader to a style of teaching that provokes his thought, getting under his skin by thrusts of wit, paradox, common sense and teasing symbolism, in preference to the preacher’s tactic of frontal assault.” (Page 56)

“The fall of man was a choosing of what bid fair ‘to make one wise’ (Gen. 3:6) but flouted the first principle of wisdom, the fear of the Lord.” (Page 16)

“Its function in Scripture is to put godliness into working clothes; to name business and society as spheres in which we are to acquit ourselves with credit to our Lord, and in which we are to look for his training.” (Page 33)

“We may start with the motto, and ask whether the ‘fear’ of the Lord implies anything more than a healthy respect for the Almighty. This it clearly does. In two passages, 2:5 and 9:10, it is made synonymous with the knowledge of him; and this knowledge is remarkably intimate.” (Page 31)

Product Details

• Title: Proverbs: An Introduction and Commentary
• Author: Derek Kidner
• Series: Tyndale Commentaries
• Volume: 17
• Publisher: IVP
• Print Publication Date: 1964
• Logos Release Date: 2009
• Pages: 189
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Bible. O.T. Proverbs › Commentaries
• ISBNs: 9780830842179, 9781844742943, 0830842179, 1844742946
• Resource ID: LLS:TOTC20PRUS
• Resource Type: Bible Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-08T01:00:41Z

About Derek Kidner

The works of Derek Kidner (MA, Christ's College, Cambridge) are full of the marks of both professor and pastor with his even­handed scholarship as well as his devotional insight. These qualities have made his commentaries in the Tyndale Old Testament Commentary series and The Bible Speaks Today series some of the most beloved and popular of recent decades. Kidner had a long career in both the church and the academy in England. He studied at Cambridge University and then served in the ministry for several years before becoming a senior tutor at Oak Hill Theological College. Kidner began his writing career while serving as warden of Tyndale House in Cambridge from 1964 to 1978, publishing his ninth and final book, The Message of Jeremiah, in 1987.