Teks -- Proverbs 20:27 (NET)

20:27 The human spirit is like the lamp of the Lord, searching all his innermost parts.

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Wesley: Pro 20:27 - The spirit

The reasonable soul.

Wesley: Pro 20:27 - The candle

Is a clear and glorious light set up in man for his information and direction.

Wesley: Pro 20:27 - Of the Lord

So called because it comes from God in a more immediate manner than the body, Ecc 12:7, and because it is in God's stead, to observe and judge all our actions.

Wesley: Pro 20:27 - Searching

Discerning not only his outward actions, which are visible to others, but his most inward thoughts and affections. The belly is here put for the heart, as it is frequently.

JFB: Pro 20:27 - The spirit . . . Lord

Men's minds are God's gifts, and thus able to search one another (compare Pro 20:5; Pro 18:8, Pro 18:17; 1Co 2:11).

Clarke: Pro 20:27 - The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord

The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord - God has given to every man a mind, which he so enlightens by his own Spirit, that the man knows how to distinguish good from evil; and conscience, which springs from this, searches the inmost recesses of the soul.

Defender: Pro 20:27 - spirit of a man

The human "spirit" (Hebrew neshamah) has been imparted directly to man by God Himself (Gen 2:7), and is part of the "image" of God (Gen 1:26). That image is severely marred by sin, but is still there, serving as God's "candle" to illuminate his thoughts and enable him to respond in saving faith to God's provision of salvation and restoration."

TSK: Pro 20:27 - spirit // candle // searching

spirit : Gen 2:7; Job 32:8; Rom 2:15; 1Co 2:11; 2Co 4:2-6; 1Jo 3:19-21

candle : or, lamp, Pro 20:20

searching : Pro 20:30; Heb 4:12, Heb 4:13

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Poole: Pro 20:27 - The spirit // Is the candle // Of the Lord // Searching all the inward parts of the belly

The spirit i.e. the reasonable soul.

Is the candle is a clear and glorious light set up in man for his information and direction.

Of the Lord so called, partly because it comes from God in a more immediate and peculiar manner than the body doth, Ecc 12:7 ; and partly because it is in God’ s stead to observe and judge all a man’ s actions.

Searching all the inward parts of the belly discerning not only his outward actions, which are visible to others, but his most inward and secret thoughts and affections, which no other man can see, 1Co 2:11 . The belly is here put for the heart , as it is frequently. The soul can reflect upon and judge of its own dispositions and actions; which plainly showeth that the heart is not so deceitful, but that a man by diligent study of it, and the use of the means appointed by God, may arrive at a certain knowledge of its state and condition, in reference to God and to salvation.

Haydock: Pro 20:27 - Lamp

Lamp. The breath of life, (Genesis ii. 7.) and the light of man, 1 Corinthians ii. 11.

Gill: Pro 20:27 - The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord // searching all the inward parts of the belly

The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord,.... The rational soul of man is a light set up in him; this is what is commonly called the light of nature; it was a bright and burning light at first, but through sin is become a very feeble one; by which men have only a glimmering view of divine things, of God and his worship, and of what he would have done, or not done; by this light men do but grope after him, if happily they may find him and know his will; it is but like a candle light at best, in comparison of divine revelation, or the Gospel of the grace of God, which has shone out like the sun in its meridian glory; and especially in comparison of the sun of righteousness, Christ Jesus, and the light of the divine Spirit; yet this is a light set up by the Lord, a candle of his; it comes from the Father of lights, he is the author and maintainer of it; it is a spirit and understanding which is by the inspiration of the Almighty; see Gen 2:7;

searching all the inward parts of the belly; or heart; the thoughts, intents, and purposes of it; which are the things of a man that only the spirit of man knows; by this candle, or light, he can look into his own heart, the inmost recesses of it, and reflect upon his thoughts and schemes, and judge in some measure whether right or wrong; there is a conscience in man, which, unless seared, passes sentence on what is in man, or done by him, and either excuses or accuses; see 1Co 2:10, Rom 2:14.