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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)...

To go further still, we may see wisdom as a thread running through the whole fabric of the Old Testament. Because God is self-consistent, what he wills can always be expressed as what wisdom dictates, and the themes of history, law, prophecy and apocalyptic can all be transposed into this key. 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. By contrast, the last portrait in Genesis is the living image of
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