Teks -- Proverbs 22:6 (NET)

22:6 Train a child in the way that he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.

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Wesley: Pro 22:6 - Depart

Not easily and ordinarily.

JFB: Pro 22:6 - Train

Initiate, or early instruct.

JFB: Pro 22:6 - the way

Literally, "his way," that selected for him in which he should go; for early training secures habitual walking in it.

Clarke: Pro 22:6 - Train up a child in the way he should go

Train up a child in the way he should go - The Hebrew of this clause is curious: חנך לנער על פי דרכו chanoch lannaar al pi darco , "Initiate the child at the opening (the mouth) of his path."When he comes to the opening of the way of life, being able to walk alone, and to choose; stop at this entrance, and begin a series of instructions, how he is to conduct himself in every step he takes. Show him the duties, the dangers, and the blessings of the path; give him directions how to perform the duties, how to escape the dangers, and how to secure the blessings, which all lie before him. Fix these on his mind by daily inculcation, till their impression is become indelible; then lead him to practice by slow and almost imperceptible degrees, till each indelible impression becomes a strongly radicated habit. Beg incessantly the blessing of God on all this teaching and discipline; and then you have obeyed the injunction of the wisest of men. Nor is there any likelihood that such impressions shall ever be effaced, or that such habits shall ever be destroyed

חנך chanac , which we translate train up or initiate, signifies also dedicate; and is often used for the consecrating any thing, house, or person, to the service of God. Dedicate, therefore, in the first instance, your child to God; and nurse, teach, and discipline him as God’ s child, whom he has intrusted to your care. These things observed, and illustrated by your own conduct, the child (you have God’ s word for it) will never depart from the path of life. Coverdale translates the passage thus: "Yf thou teachest a childe what waye he shoulde go, he shall not leave it when he is olde."Coverdale’ s Bible, for generally giving the true sense of a passage, and in elegant language for the time, has no equal in any of the translations which have followed since. Horace’ s maxim is nearly like that of Solomon: -

Fingit equum tenera docilem cervice magiste

Ire viam, quam monstrat eques; venaticus, ex qu

Tempore cervinam pellem latravit in aula

Militat in sylvis catulus. Nunc adbibe pur

Pectore verba, puer; nunc te melioribus ofter

Quo semel est imbuta recens, servabit odore

Testa diu

Hor. Ep. lib. i., ep. 2, ver. 64

"The docile colt is form’ d with gentle skil

To move obedient to his rider’ s will

In the loud hall the hound is taught to ba

The buckskin trail’ d, then challenges his pre

Through the wild woods. Thus, in your hour of yout

From pure instruction quaff the words of truth

The odours of the wine that first shall stai

The virgin vessel, it shall long retain.

Francis.

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Defender: Pro 22:6 - Train up

"Train up" is from a Hebrew word normally translated "dedicate" or "consecrate." The phrase "in the way he should go" is, literally, "according to his way" - that is, the "way" intended for him by his God-given abilities and interests. Parents should seek to ascertain this in a child's nature, and then dedicate him or her to that sacred cause, that the child, when grown, may make the optimum contribution to the kingdom of God."

TSK: Pro 22:6 - Train up // a child // the way // when

Train up : or, Catechize

a child : Gen 18:19; Deu 4:9, Deu 6:7; Psa 78:3-6; Eph 6:4; 2Ti 3:15

the way : Heb. his way

when : 1Sa 1:28, 1Sa 2:26, 1Sa 12:2, 1Sa 12:3

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Pro 22:6 - Train up

Train up or, initiate or instruct, a child in the way he should go , Heb. in or according to his way , i.e. either,

1. According to his capacity. Or rather,

2. In that course or manner of life which thou wouldst have him choose and follow. Or, as one learned man renders it, in the beginning of his way , i.e. in his tender years, as soon as he is capable of instruction. Heb. in the mouth , &c. The mouth is oft put for the beginning or entrance of any place, as Gen 29:2 Jos 10:18 Pro 8:3 Dan 6:17 . Will not depart from it , to wit, not easily and ordinarily. The impressions made in childish years will remain, as hath been observed by all sorts of learned writers. But this, as many proverbs of like nature, are not to be understood as if they were universally and necessarily true, which experience confutes, but because it is so for the most part, except some extraordinary cause hinder it.

Haydock: Pro 22:6 - It is a proverb // It // Testa diu

It is a proverb, is added by St. Jerome, to make the sentence more striking. ---

It. He is like a tender plant, (Calmet) or wax, or a new vessel. Quo semel est imbuta recens servabit odorem

Testa diu. (Horace, ep. i. ad Lol.)

--- "Shall wool regain its whiteness after it has been dyed purple?" (St. Jerome, ad Lætam.) ---

Hebrew, "initiate a young," &c. Proportion your lessons to his capacity, and make him relish them.

Gill: Pro 22:6 - Train up a child in the way he should go // and when he is old he will not depart from it

Train up a child in the way he should go,.... As Abraham trained up his children, and those born in his house, in the way of the Lord, in the paths of justice and judgment; which are the ways in which they should go, and which will be to their profit and advantage; see Gen 14:14; and which is the duty of parents and masters in all ages, and under the present Gospel dispensation, even to bring such who are under their care in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, Eph 6:4; by praying with them and for them, by bringing them under the means of grace, the ministry of the word, by instructing them in the principles of religion, teaching them their duty to God and man, and setting them good examples of a holy life and conversation; and this is to be done according to their capacity, and as they are able to understand and receive the instructions given them: "according to the mouth of his way" ^s, as it may be literally rendered; as soon as he is able to speak or go, even from his infancy; or as children are fed by little bits, or a little at a time, as their mouths can receive it;

and when he is old he will not depart from it; not easily, nor ordinarily; there are exceptions to this observation; but generally, where there is a good education, the impressions of it do not easily wear off, nor do men ordinarily forsake a good way they have been brought up in ^t; and, however, when, being come to years of maturity and understanding, their hearts are seasoned with the grace of God, they are then enabled to put that in practice which before they had only in theory, and so continue in the paths of truth and holiness.