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wise son heareth his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth
not rebuke. A wise son heareth his father's instruction,.... As
he should, and has good reason to do; since it must be cordial,
faithful, and disinterested, as well as the effect of age and
experience. He "asks for it" and "loves" it, as Jarchi supplies
the text; he likes and approves of it, is well pleased with it,
and delights in it; seeing it tends to his profit and advantage;
he "receives" it, as the Targum, so Ben Melech; he listens to
and obeys it, and acts agreeably to it, which shows him to be
wise; and this is the way to be wiser and wiser. So one that is
spiritually wise will attend to and receive the instruction of
Wisdom or Christ; who stands in the relation of an everlasting
fin, her to his children; whose instruction is the doctrine of
the Gospel; which a wise man hears, so as to understand it; to
love and like it, and approve of it; cordially to embrace and
obey it, and