The full soul loathed a honeycomb, but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet. (Prov. xxvii : 7). "A good repast ought to begin with hunger," "A man who wants bread is ready for anything, "One may be surfeited by eating tarts." (French). "A hungry ass eats any straw,' Hunger changes beans into almonds" (Italian). "Hunger finds no fault with the cooking.' "Hunger makes hard beans soft." (English). "The Pharisees found no more sweetness or savoriness in our Saviour's sermons, than in the white of an egg, or a dry chip."-John Trapp.

Dr. Toy thinks that this proverb may be "an allusion to praise and congratulation which may be nauseous to him who has much of it, grateful to him to whom it rarely comes.'

The glory of young men is their strength; and the beauty of old men is the hoary head. (Prov. xx:29).

The heart knoweth its own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with its joy. (Prov. xiv: 10).

"Every man knows where the shoe pinches." (English).

The liberal soul shall be made fat; shall be watered also himself.

and he that watereth (Prov. xi: 25).

There are many devices in a man's heart; but the counsel of Jehovah, that shall stand. (Prov. xix: 21).

There is a way which seemeth right unto a man; but the end thereof are the ways of death. (Prov. xiv: 12).

"If the road be fifty miles long, it may be apparently right for forty-nine of them, and because it is right for so large a portion of the distance, we may hastily conclude it must be right even to the very end. . . . It is the last mile that dips down into bottomless abysses."-Joseph Parker.

The wicked flee when no man pursueth; but the righteous are bold as a lion. (Prov. xxviii : 1).

They shall surely ask counsel at Abel. (II Sam. xx : 18). Abel-beth-maacah (Abel of the house of Maacah)

was situated in upper Galilee west of Tell-elkadi. At one time it was celebrated for the wisdom of its inhabitants.

Walk with the wise men and thou shalt be wise; but the companion of fools shall smart for it. (Prov. xiii : 20).

What is the straw to the wheat? (Jer. xxiii : 28).

Where no oxen are the crib is clean; but much increase is by the strength of the ox. (Prov. xiv: 4).

Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein; and he that rolleth a stone, it shall return upon him. (Prov. xxvi : 27). He who digs a pit with malicious intent shall fall therein and he who rolls a stone up a hill that it may descend on the person or property of his enemy will find that it will return on his own head and crush him.

Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whosoever erreth thereby is not wise. (Prov. xx: 1).

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BIBLE PROVERBS

THE NEW TESTAMENT

A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. (Gal. v:9).
See Josh. vii: 1-26; II Ki. xxi : 2-17; Eccles. ix: 18;
Matt. xiii: 33; and I Cor. v : 6.

"One spoonful of vinegar will soon tart a great
deal of sweet milk; but a great deal of milk will
not so soon sweeten one spoonful of vinegar."-
John Trapp.

See also Bible Proverbs-Old Testament: "Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to send forth an evil odour; so doth a little folly outweigh wisdom and honour."

A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country and among his own kin and in his own house. (Mark,

vi : 4).

See Matt. xiii: 57; Mark vi : 4; Luke iv : 24; John

iv: 44.

See Contradictory Proverbs: "Every dog is a lion at home."

"It is pathetic that, though after the Resurrection they [the brothers of Jesus] came over to His cause, during His ministry the Lord's brothers not merely rejected His claims but sneered at them; and once they went so far as to pronounce Him mad and attempt to lay hands on Him and hale Him home to Nazareth, illustrating the proverb, so often on His lips, that 'A prophet hath no honour among his own people.""-David Smith, D.D.

"Joseph when he began to be a prophet was hated

by his brethren; David was disdained by his brother; Jeremiah was maligned by the men of

Anathoth, Paul by his countrymen the Jews, and
Christ by his near kinsmen who spake most slight-
ly of Him. Men's pride and envy make them scorn
to be instructed by those who once were their
schoolfellows and playmates. Desire of novelty
and of that which is far fetched and dear bought,
and seems to drop out of the sky to them, makes
them despise those persons and things which they
have been long used to, and know the rise of."-
Matthew Henry.

"Men will hardly set those among the guides of
their souls, whose fathers they were ready to set
with the dogs of their flock."-Matthew Henry.
"This is the common koreya of the village and
people style it 'Indarjao"" (Behar). (John
Christian informs us that this koreya is a common
produce grown in every village in Behar but when
used as a medicine abroad it is called "Indarjao

i.e. barley fit for Indar, King of the fairies.) "Lame in the village, an antelope in the jungle.' "The tree in the backyard won't do for medicine." (Telugu). "A candle gives no radiance at its lower end." (Osmanli). "Fame abroad and famine at home. "Fame throughout the country, at home starvation." (Tamil). "A Jogee is called Jogra in his own village, but one from another village is called Sidh." "One's own fowls are of no greater value than split peas,"-i.e. things produced at home are despised. (Hindustani). "The pearl has no value in its own shell." "Leave your country if you want glory and honour." (Urdu). "A cow in his own house, a lion outside.' (Marathi).

As ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise. (Luke vi : 31).

See Matt. vii: 12.

This precept was not, as some have thought, a proverb quoted from the sayings of Hillel or the speech of Isocrates. It was one of those matchless utterances of Jesus that gripped the hearts of His hearers and has never lost its charm and power. While it was not a proverb in the days of Jesus it has become one in the speech of men and is therefore given in this list. Hillel's words were

negative. Addressing a possible proselyte he
said: "What is hateful to thee, do not to another.
This is the whole law, or else is only its explana-
tion," but the "Golden Rule" is positive. It is
possible that the thought was suggested to Hillel
by the advice of Tobat to his son Tobias, which
was as follows: "Do that to no man which thou
hatest: drink not wine to make the drunkard;
neither let drunkenness go with thee in thy
journey."

Gibbon declared that he found the maxim in a
moral treatise of Isocrates written four hundred
years before the publication of the Gospel, but the
saying to which he referred was not the "Golden
Rule."
Like the utterance of Hillel it was nega-
tive and was a maxim of justice rather than of
charity.

"Feel for others as you feel for yourself." (Tamil).
"Whatever he does to others he gets the same
at home." (Assamese).

Everyone that exalteth himself shall be humbled; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. (Luke xiii : 14).

See I Sam. ii:8; Matt. xxiii: 12; Lukei: 52; xiv: II. See also Bible Proverbs-Old Testament: "Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall."

"He that exalteth himself shall be humbled." (Hindustani and Persian). "He who humbleth himself, God lifteth him up." (Arabian).

"He who is proud shall be humbled."-Rabbi Abira. "If I condescend I am exalted, but if I am haughty I am degraded."-Rabbi Hillel.

"The Lord hath cast down the thrones of proud princes and set up the meek in their stead. The Lord hath plucked up the roots of the proud nations and planted the lowly in their place. (Eccles. x 14, 15).

"If you are a man of distinction and entitled to a prominent scat at an assembly, seat yourself, nevertheless, two or three seats lower, for it is better to be told 'go up' than to be asked to 'go down.'"-Levit Rabba Ì.