True wisdom itself keeps crying aloud in the very street (Proverbs 1:20–33)

5 min readAug 15, 2024

“True wisdom itself keeps crying aloud in the very street. In the public squares it keeps giving forth its voice. At the upper end of the noisy streets it calls out. At the entrances of the gates into the city it says its own sayings: “How long will you inexperienced ones keep loving inexperience, and how long must you ridiculers desire for yourselves outright ridicule, and how long will you stupid ones keep hating knowledge? Turn back at my reproof. Then to you I will cause my spirit to bubble forth; I will make my words known to you. Because I have called out but you keep refusing, I have stretched out my hand but there is no one paying attention, and you keep neglecting all my counsel, and my reproof you have not accepted, I also, for my part, shall laugh at your own disaster, I shall mock when what you dread comes, when what you dread comes just like a storm, and your own disaster gets here just like a storm wind, when distress and hard times come upon you. At that time they will keep calling me, but I shall not answer; they will keep looking for me, but they will not find me, for the reason that they hated knowledge, and the fear of Jehovah they did not choose. They did not consent to my counsel; they disrespected all my reproof. So they will eat from the fruitage of their way, and they will be glutted with their own counsels. For the renegading of the inexperienced ones is what will kill them, and the easygoingness of the stupid is what will destroy them. As for the one listening to me, he will reside in security and be undisturbed from dread of calamity.”” (Proverbs 1:20–33).

The wisdom is personified in someone speaking in the street. Behind this metaphor of the wisdom shouting in the street, there is a simple message: the one who holds divine wisdom, must share it to people and without fearing the reactions of them, which sometimes can be hostile. The selection will be made naturally, between those who listen and those who refuse it. The text is very severe towards those who are refusing it: “So they will eat from the fruitage of their way, and they will be glutted with their own counsels. For the renegading of the inexperienced ones is what will kill them, and the easygoingness of the stupid is what will destroy them” (Proverbs 1:31,32).

The word “apostasy” comes from the Greek, which in the Hebrew text (from the Book of Proverbs), the Hebrew word means turning away, turning back, backsliding (Strong’s Concordance (H4878). Other translations use synonyms such as going around, denial, revolt… In the Greek biblical texts (the New Testament), the word of Greek origin has significantly the same meaning, a falling away, defection (Strong’s Concordance (G646)). It is important to understand that this very serious qualifier, has a very restrictive definition and meaning, both in the Old Testament (Hebrew text) and in the New Testament (Greek text).

In all the biblical references of the two main parts of the Bible, the apostasy is directly linked to the abandonment of the worship of the True God and the Christian faith in Jesus Christ. For example, in the biblical history, the nation of Israel fell into apostasy by worshiping other gods than the True God Jehovah. The apostate abandons the worship of Jehovah God, no longer recognizes in Jesus Christ, the Messiah and no longer recognizes that the Bible is the Word of God (here are some references of biblical texts showing what is on a strictly biblical level, Apostasy: ((1 Samuel 15:11; 28:6, 7 (King Saul); 1 Kings 12:28–32 (King Jeroboam); 1 Kings 16:30–33 (King Ahab); 1 Kings 22:51–53 (King Achazia); 2 Chronicles 21: 6–15 (King Joram); 2 Chronicles 28:1–4 (King Achaz); 2 Chronicles 33: 22.23 (Ammon)). As for the Christian part of the Bible, the meaning is the same, that of the abandonment of faith, this is what is written in 1 Timothy 1:19,20 and 2 Timothy 2:16- 19 which mentions the fact of deviating from the biblical truth.

It is necessary to stick to the biblical definition of what apostasy is, without falling into the slander. For example, the faithful Patriarch Job has been slandered by three accusers. The faithful Job was said to be called an apostate, wrongly, by his three accusers (Job 8:13 (accusation of Bildad); 3:34 (accusation of Eliphaz); 20: 5 (accusation of Zophar)). These three slanderers had a very stretchable definition of what apostasy is, when Job never ceased to proclaim his faith and his attachment to Jehovah God, the Heavenly Father. It is obvious that Jehovah God was not indifferent to the slander of these three accusers (Job 42:7). In the past, as in the present, many faithful Christians are slandered (within the Christian Congregations) by insulting them to be apostates, at the same times, they continue (without having abandoned it) to have a sincere faith in God and in Jesus Christ and in the Bible. It is not without any importance for Jehovah God, The Heavenly Father and for Jesus Christ, the Son (Read Isaiah 66:5 and Matthiew 5:22).

Reading the Bible (Reading and meditating on the biblical book of Proverbs):

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THE SPIRITUAL MAN (Existential meditation on the biblical book of Ecclesiastes):

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The Promise of God. The complete explanation of Genesis 3:15.

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