Homilist Proverbs 13:22 A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just. I. AS ENTAILED BY THE GOOD AND ALIENATED BY THE EVIL. Here we have it — 1. Entailed by the good. "A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children." It is a characteristic in man that he feels an interest in posterity. This is an indication of the greatness of man's nature. It is here intimated by Solomon that the good have some special security by which their property shall descend to their children's children. And truly they have; and what is it? The probable goodness of their children's children. 2. Alienated by the evil. Wickedness, from its very nature, cannot hold property through many generations: the fortunes it inherits must crumble away. II. AS GAINED BY INDUSTRY AND SQUANDERED BY IMPRUDENCE. Every acre of land is full of potential wealth. Skilled industry can make more of one rood of earth than some men can an acre. But it requires even more sense to retain and rightly use property than to get it. (Homilist.) Parallel Verses KJV: A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just. |
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