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   From: Dawn.Belle.Flood@gmail.com   
      
   On 8/23/2024 12:16 PM, Brother Desmond (Desi) Edward Coughlan wrote:   
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   > Seek His will in all you do, and He will show you which path to take.   
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   > Repent now and accept Jesus Christ into your heart   
      
      
   It is impossible to offer precise dates for the sayings in Proverbs, a   
   "collection of collections" relating to a pattern of life which lasted   
   for more than a millennium.[2] The phrase conventionally used for the   
   title is taken from chapter 1:1, mishley shelomoh, Proverbs of Solomon   
   (the phrase is repeated at 10:1 and 25:1), and is likely more concerned   
   with labeling the material than ascribing authorship.[18]   
      
   The book is an anthology made up of six discrete units. The Proverbs of   
   Solomon section, chapters 1–9, was probably the last to be composed, in   
   the Persian or Hellenistic periods. This section has parallels to prior   
   cuneiform writings.[19] The second, chapters 10–22:16, carries the   
   superscription "the proverbs of Solomon", which may have encouraged its   
   inclusion in the Hebrew canon. The third unit, 22:17–24:22, is headed   
   "bend your ear and hear the words of the wise". A large part of this   
   section is a recasting of a second-millennium BCE Egyptian work, the   
   Instruction of Amenemope, and may have reached the Hebrew author(s)   
   through an Aramaic translation. Chapter 24:23 begins a new section and   
   source with the declaration, "these too are from the wise". The next   
   section at chapter 25:1 has a superscription to the effect that the   
   following proverbs were transcribed "by the men of Hezekiah", indicating   
   at face value that they were collected in the reign of Hezekiah in the   
   late 8th century BCE. Chapters 30 and 31 (the "words of Agur," the   
   "words of Lemuel," and the description of the ideal woman) are a set of   
   appendices, quite different in style and emphasis from the previous   
   chapters.[20]   
      
   The "wisdom" genre was widespread throughout the ancient Near East, and   
   reading Proverbs alongside the examples recovered from Egypt and   
   Mesopotamia reveals the common ground shared by international   
   wisdom.[21] The wisdom literature of Israel may have been developed in   
   the family, the royal court, and houses of learning and instruction;[22]   
   nevertheless, the overwhelming impression is of instruction within the   
   family in small villages.[23]   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Proverbs   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)