Daily Sacrifice, April 7 (1:7)
“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction”— Proverbs 1:7.
FEAR here implies, not dread, but rather reverent awe. He who does not revere God is branded as a fool, a simpleton, who in his colossal ignorance often fancies himself wiser than his Creator and so ignoring all advice, plunges headlong into things that are destructive alike to body and soul.
—J. A. B.