The eternal Son of God gathers, plants, builds His church by a voice _i.e.,_ His Word. All true teachers of the Word are crying voices through which Christ calls. Out of Christ's school is no true wisdom. So long as Christ's wisdom is still speaking outside thee it avails thee nothing; but when thou allowest it to dwell in thee it is thy light and life.--_Egard._ We cannot promulgate as doctrine, but we think the last day will show that wisdom plied every art; that what was, "all things working together for good" in behalf of the believer, was something analogous in tendency in the instance of the sinner; that if the sinner thought his lot defeated repentance, he was mistaken; or that, could he have fared otherwise, his chances would have been improved: all this was largely error; moreover, that he will be held accountable at last for quite the opposite, and punished for a life singularly favoured and frequently adapted as the very best to lead him to salvation.--_Miller._ In her ministers, who are criers by office, and must be earnest (Isa. lviii. 1). See an instance in holy Bradford. "I beseech you," saith he, "I pray you with hand, pen, tongue, and mind, in Christ, through Christ, for Christ, for His name, blood, mercy, power, and truth's sake, my most entirely beloved that you admit no doubting of God's final mercies towards you." Here was a lusty crier indeed.--_Trapp._ This form of interrogation, which expects as its answer an assenting and emphatic "yes, truly," points to the fact clearly brought to view in all that has preceded, that Wisdom bears an unceasing witness in her own behalf in the life of men.--_Zöckler._ Verse 2. "Standeth" implies assiduous perseverance. Instead of taking her stand in dark places, in a corner, like the harlot (chap. vii. 9), she "standeth" in the top of high places.--_Fausset._ Wisdom is representing as haunting all human paths. Folly lives upon them, too. Wisdom does not claim them as her own; Folly does. Wisdom has but one path. And she haunts every other to turn men out of such diverse journeyings into the one great track of holiness and truth.--_Miller._ Verse 3. Thereby intending (1) to reach the whole concourse of the lost, and (2) to make human life at these great rallying places of men, speak its own lessons, and utter the loudest warnings against the soul's impenitence.--_Miller._ _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.--Verses_ 4-9. GOD'S SPEECH MEETING MAN'S NEED.