Posted on 10/25/2019 5:09:35 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out” (Proverbs 25:1).
Chapter 25 begins kind of a new section in Proverbs. Some want to say that these were proverbs collected by King Hezekiah’s men, much later on. It doesn’t say that, it says, “These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out” (Proverbs 25:1 KJV). It doesn’t say that this happened at a later date, it just says that they copied them out. Hezekiah, of course, was a king that came about 400 years later. What the ‘scholars’ want to suggest is this, Solomon wrote another book, a mystery gospel, and these are five chapters that were copied out of that so that there is a missing book somewhere. These scholars always want to come up with an apocryphal book, a “q” document, some missing thing that we don’t have in order to ‘imply’ that the Scriptures are not complete. That is just another way to get around what the Scriptures say as ‘final.’ They are just what 25:1 says they are, and nothing more.
Chapter 25 begins a new section, and this is kind of like throwing salt on wounds. Chapters 25 through 29 is every bit as rough as it gets. Added admonitions and rebuke for the way that people live. This is the third section. The first section chapters 1-9 contrasted wisdom and folly, the second section of chapters 10-24 were Solomon’s proverbs, and this third section are more of Solomon’s proverbs but their style and approach changes.
“These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.”
Now, you see that little phrase in there—God just stuck that in there to foul the scholars up—those that wanted to disbelieve the book. God, it seems, always has a wrench to fit somebody’s nut. If a man wants to make a mess, God will supply the material to mess them up. He’ll put things in the Bible that seemingly contradict just so that men will have fuel for their fire, and that because He delights in seeing them made fools of. Why does He do this? Well, some men refuse to believe the truth, so He makes it possible for them to believe a lie.
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