THEOSISProverbs 25:4Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Take away the rust from silver, and there shall come forth a most pure vessel:
הָג֣וֹ סִיגִ֣ים מִכָּ֑סֶף וַיֵּצֵ֖א לַצֹּרֵ֣ף כֶּֽלִי׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Ezek 22:18Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross to me: all these are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace: they are become the dross of silver.
- Isa 1:25And I will turn my hand to thee, and I will clean purge away thy dross, and I will take away all thy tin.
- Isa 1:27Sion shall be redeemed in judgment, and they shall bring her back in justice.
- 2 Tim 2:20But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth: and some indeed unto honour, but some unto dishonour.
- 2 Tim 2:21If any man therefore shall cleanse himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified and profitable to the Lord, prepared unto every good work.
- Mal 3:2And who shall be able to think of the day of his coming? and who shall stand to see him? for he is like a refining fire, and like the fuller's herb:
- Mal 3:3And he shall sit refining and cleansing the silver, and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and shall refine them as gold, and as silver, and they shall offer sacrifices to the Lord in justice.
- Prov 17:3As silver is tried by fire, and gold in the furnace: so the Lord trieth the hearts.