These verses seem somewhat to interrupt the continuity of the invitation which Wisdom utters. The order of thought is, however, this: “I speak to y…

He that reproveth a scorner ...—Wisdom does not address the scoffer, nor the godless: this would be giving that which…

He that reproveth a scorner gets to himself shame Intimating, that though the simple, and such as want understanding, and…

Christ has prepared ordinances to which his people are admitted, and by which nourishment is given here to those who believe in him, as well as man…