These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
These. Solomon wrote 3,000, and we have only 915 verses extant. (Calmet)
The rest perhaps showed his genius, but were less useful. (To stat. in 3 Kings iv. 9.)
Men. Isaias, Sobna (Calmet)
Out of other records, (Menochius) or "translated "into a language better understood. (Denis the Carthusian) (Bayn.)
Moreover, in the days of Hezekiah, there were some of the books selected for use, and others set aside. Whence the Scripture says, “These are the mixed proverbs of Solomon, which the friends of Hezekiah the king copied out.” And from where did they take them but out of the books containing the three thousand parables and the five thousand songs? Out of these, then, the wise friends of Hezekiah took those portions which bore upon the edification of the church. .
