XXVI. THE FOOL 337 XXVII. LIVING DAY BY DAY 350 XXVIII. AN ASPECT OF ATONEMENT 362 XXIX. THE NEED OF REVELATION 375 XXX. THE WORDS OF AGUR 386 XXXI. A GOOD WOMAN 396 INDEX OF PASSAGES 411 GENERAL INDEX 416 INTRODUCTION. In attempting to make the book of Proverbs a subject of Expository Lectures and practical sermons it has been necessary to treat the book as a uniform composition, following, chapter by chapter, the order which the compiler has adopted, and bringing the scattered sentences together under subjects which are suggested by certain more striking points in the successive chapters. By this method the great bulk of the matter contained in the book is brought under review, either in the way of exposition or in the way of quotation and allusion, though even in this method many smaller sayings slip through the expositor's meshes. But the grave defect of the method which is thus employed is that it completely obliterates those interesting marks, discernible on the very surface of the book, of the origin and the compilation of the separate parts. This defect the reader can best supply by turning to Professor Cheyne's scholarly work "Job and Solomon; or, The Wisdom of the Old Testament;" but for those who have not time or opportunity to refer to any book besides the one which is in their hands, a brief Introduction to the following Lectures may not be unwelcome.