Why are both wisdom and foolishness pictured as women in Proverbs?
Proverbs 9:1 - 18
ESV - 1 Wisdom has built her house; she has hewn her seven pillars. 2 She has slaughtered her beasts; she has mixed her wine; she has also set her table.
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S. Michael Houdmann
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Chapter 9 of Proverbs uses personification to describe wisdom and foolishness as women. Why would the author use women as his examples? The answer is found in the descriptions used of these two ter...
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