I. 箴言与普通智慧的区别
(1) 箴言教我们如何生活，但箴言主要的目的并非为了帮助我们在地上的生存。如果箴言只是为了帮助我们属地的生存的话，亚伯（创世纪 4:8）的经历就足以证明智慧是软弱无力的。就人的经历来讲，亚伯是信心生活的开始，是智慧首次显现。但亚伯很快就被他哥哥该隐杀了。如果单从生存的角度讲，还有什么比亚伯更软弱更失败的呢？
有一种讲法，说艺术和文学是“源于生活， 但高于生活。” 这也许听上去很有灵感，但只是人的一种想法而已。若真的是完全出自于人的生活的事物，绝没有一样可以真正超越生活。
出自尘土的，必归于尘土 （创 3:19）。
然而箴言并非“出自生活且[……]
I. Proverbs is not common wisdom:
(1) Proverbs teaches us how to live, but this book is not primarily about practical social skills for survival in this world. If it were about survival, Abel would have been a powerful example to prove the feebleness of wisdom. But Abel is the beginning of the life[……]
“Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end. ” John 13:1:
“… that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed took bread; and[……]