Posted by Jeff Short on January 28, 2019 · Leave a Comment
As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise.
– Proverbs 27:21
The
fining pot and
furnace are not analytical tools for testing metal, but rather instruments of refining and preparing metal. Metal is tested in the crucible, and that is a common enough image of men being tested by trials, but it doesn’t end there. Metal is purified in the crucible and made ready for use. Likewise, praise tests and purifies a man, or else it tests and discards him. Wisdom warns against self-praise (Proverbs 17:3; 25:27; 27:2).
Proverbs 27:21
Posted by Jeff Short on January 28, 2019 · Leave a Comment
As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise.
The fining pot and furnace are not analytical tools for testing metal, but rather instruments of refining and preparing metal. Metal is tested in the crucible, and that is a common enough image of men being tested by trials, but it doesn’t end there. Metal is purified in the crucible and made ready for use. Likewise, praise tests and purifies a man, or else it tests and discards him. Wisdom warns against self-praise (Proverbs 17:3; 25:27; 27:2).– Proverbs 27:21
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