Proverbs, Community, and the Culture
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Below is a post by Tim Keller, pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in NYC, from April 28, 2010.
Some years ago I preached through the book of Proverbs, and I learned two things I hadn't known about it. First, the Proverbs only give up their meaning cumulatively. No one proverb gives you the whole picture. If one proverb says, "the morally good always have a good life" and a later proverb says, "sometimes the morally good suffer" we think it's a contradiction.