Teks -- Proverbs 27:5 (NET)

27:5 Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

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Wesley: Pro 27:5 - Open

When it is needful, in which case, though it put a man to some shame yet it doth him good.

Wesley: Pro 27:5 - Better

More desirable and beneficial.

Wesley: Pro 27:5 - Secret love

Which does not shew itself by friendly actions, and particularly by free and faithful reproof.

JFB: Pro 27:5-6 - secret love

Not manifested in acts is useless; and even, if its exhibition by rebukes wounds us, such love is preferable to the frequent (compare Margin), and hence deceitful, kisses of an enemy.

Clarke: Pro 27:5 - Open rebuke is better than secret love

Open rebuke is better than secret love - Plutarch gives an account of a man who, aiming a blow at his enemy’ s life, cut open an imposthume, which by a salutary discharge saved his life, that was sinking under a disease for which a remedy could not be found. Partial friendship covers faults; envy, malice, and revenge, will exhibit, heighten, and even multiply them. The former conceals us from ourselves; the latter shows us the worst part of our character. Thus we are taught the necessity of amendment and correction. In this sense open rebuke is better than secret love. Yet it is a rough medicine, and none can desire it. But the genuine open-hearted friend may be intended, who tells you your faults freely but conceals them from all others; hence the sixth verse: "Faithful are the wounds of a friend."

TSK: Pro 27:5

Pro 28:23; Lev 19:17; Mat 18:15; Gal 2:14; 1Ti 5:20

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Poole: Pro 27:5 - Open rebuke // Better // Secret love

Open rebuke Heb. which is manifested or discovered , either,

1. Publicly and before others, when it is needful; in which case, though it put a man to some shame, yet it doth him good. Or,

2. Privately, and to the offender’ s time, a plain and downright reproof.

Better more desirable and beneficial.

Secret love which lies hid in the heart, and doth not show itself by friendly actions, and particularly by free and faithful reproof, which is a principal end and benefit of friendship.

Haydock: Pro 27:5 - Love

Love. Which can be of no service to us, while reproof may cause us to amend.

Gill: Pro 27:5 - Open rebuke is better than secret love.

Open rebuke is better than secret love. This is to be understood, not of rebuke publicly given; though Aben Ezra thinks public reproof is meant, which, arising from love, is better than that which is done in secret, though in love, as being more effectual; for rebuke among friends should be given privately, according to our Lord's direction, Mat 18:15; but it signifies reproof given faithfully and plainly, with openness of heart, and without mincing the matter, and palliating the offence; but speaking out freely, and faithfully laying before a person the evil of his sin, in all the circumstances of it, as the Apostle Paul did to Peter, when he withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed, Gal 2:11. Now such kind of reproof is better than such love to a person as will not suffer him to tell him of his faults, for fear of grieving him, or losing his friendship; or than such love as does not show itself in deeds, and particularly in faithful reproofs; for so to act is to hate a person, and suffer sin to be upon him, Lev 19:17.