The proverbs of Solomon paraphrased with the arguments of each chapter, which supply the place of a commentary / by Symon Patrick ...

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Title: The proverbs of Solomon paraphrased with the arguments of each chapter, which supply the place of a commentary / by Symon Patrick ...
Author: Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707.
Publication: London :: Printed by M. Flesher for R. Royston ...,; 1683.
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Subject terms: Bible. -- O.T. -- Proverbs -- Paraphrases, English.; Bible. -- O.T. -- Proverbs -- Commentaries.
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18. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her; and happy is every one that retaineth her.

18. In short, Wisedom leads into a Paradise; and supplies the place of that Tree of Life, from whence our first Parents were ba∣nished: that is, gives not onely a present, but an im∣mortal satisfaction, to all those that strongly appre∣hend and retain her Precepts; and therefore I again pro∣nounce him happy (v. 13.) above all other men, and above all expression, who constantly and firmly ad∣heres unto them. See Ar∣gument [d]