I'm teaching for the first time in church tonight; passage is Proverbs 9:7-12, and I'll be emphasizing how the context (Lady Wisdoms building her home and serving a banquet) ties moral precepts in squarely with the Church and the Gospel, and the juxtaposition between the scorner and the wise man.
Notice, for what it's worth, that the opposite of the wise man is not the fool, but rather the "scorner." (Hebrew "lutz")
Berg’s Law: Forward
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“Reality has become too absurd to be satirized” Ironically, tracking down
the attribution for this classic aphorism is, itself, an exercise in
absurdity. ...
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