![]() ![]() “Hearing bad things about others is so tasty that we gulp it right down into our memory. It appeals to our prideĬriticism often says more about the character of the critic than about the conduct Proverbs 18:8 - The words of a whisperer are like dainty morsels… A. Because Being a Whisperer Is So Attractive Romans 15:14 - And concerning you, my brethren, I myself also am convinced that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able also to admonish one another. ![]() Matthew 18:15 - If your brother sins, go and show him his fault in private if he listens to you, you have won your brother. People like to hear evil of their fellows and whatever they may forget they will recollect slander without any effort of memory it is remembered, and in all probability it will be transmitted by a damaging whisper.” (William McKane, Proverbs, A New Approach, p. “This is an observation on a human flaw – the appetite for evil gossip and the relish with which it is savored and devoured. Psalm 106:24-25 - Then they despised the pleasant land they did not believe in His word, but grumbled in their tents they did not listen to the voice of the Lord. What it isĭeuteronomy 1:27 - …and you grumbled in your tents and said, “Because the Lord hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us.” Because Being a Whisperer Is So Serious A. Now these were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.ģ reasons to avoid grumbling behind someone’s back I. This makes a good reading, and agrees with the latter clause of the verse, "they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.1 - The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel…Ģ - To know wisdom and instruction, to discern the sayings of understanding…ģ - To receive instruction in wise behavior, righteousness, justice and equity…Ĥ - To give prudence to the naive, to the youth knowledge and discretion…ĥ - A wise man will hear and increase in learning, and a man of understanding will acquire wise counsel…ġ - Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.Ģ - A good man will obtain favor from the Lord, but He will condemn a man who devises evil.ģ - A man will not be established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will not be moved.Ĥ - An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who shames him is like rottenness in his bones.Īcts 17:10-11 - The brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived, they went into the synagogue of the Jews. He observes that lahamah in Arabic signifies to "swallow down quickly or greedily." Such words are like dainties, eagerly swallowed, because inviting to the taste like gingerbread, apparently gilded over, though with Dutch leaf, which is a preparation of copper or sweetmeats powdered over with red candied seeds, which are thus formed by red lead both deeply ruinous to the tender bowels of the poor little innocents, but, because of their sweetness and inviting color, greedily swallowed down. The original word is כמתלהמים kemithlahamim they are as soft or simple, or undesigning. The words of a deceiver, the fair-spoken, deeply-malicious man, though they appear soft and gracious, are wounds deeply injurious. Verba bilinguis, "the words of the double-tongued." - Vulgate. The words of a tale-bearer - נרגן דברי dibrey nirgan, "the words of the whisperer," the busy-body, the busy, meddling croaker. Hence it follows:Īnd they go down into the innermost parts of the belly go down pleasantly, and sink deep into the hearts of those to whom they are told where they have a place and remain, both to the injury of the persons that receive them, and of them of whom they are told and, though pleasing at first, they are as wounds in the inner parts, which are mortal. Or, they are "as of those that are wounded" they pretend to be affected with the case they tell, and to be grieved for the failings and infirmities of those they are secretly exposing, when at the same time they rejoice at them: or, they are "secret" hidden ones, as Aben Ezra interprets it they are spoken secretly, and wound secretly, in a backbiting way: or, they are "smooth" or flattering, as Kimchi they are smoother than oil, and glide easily into the minds of others: rather, "are greedily swallowed down", as the word in the Arabic language signifies as Schultens has shown, and so renders it. Or rather they are wounds they wound the credit and reputation of the person of whom the tale is told they wound the person to whom it is told, and destroy his love and affection to his friend and in the issue they wound, hurt, and ruin the talebearer himself.
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