The Wise Inherit Glory; Fools Receive Shame

Intelligence, reason, and mind constitute the power by which man asserts supremacy over the beasts of the earth. Yet a great intellect dissociated from moral control becomes a scourge and terror. The wise—those whose minds are sanctified by devotion to Elohim—shall inherit glory.

Sanctified intellect glorifies God while advancing human good. It works through prayer, the press, and the pulpit, ministering both to divine honor and earthly welfare. This is the reward of wisdom: inheritance of eternal glory.

Conversely, shame shall be the promotion of fools. The earthly-minded sinner makes ruinous choices: preferring man's favor to God's, the body's interests to the soul's, temporal pleasure to eternal happiness. He exchanges robes for rags, jewels for pebbles, substance for shadow.

The fool's conduct rebels against Adonai, makes no preparation for eternity, and rejects the pardon freely offered by the Lord. His shame shall arise from multiple sources. When a soldier expected promotion but faced dismissal for cowardice, or an author expected applause but received condemnation—disappointment brought shame. How vastly greater when the sinner awakens in eternity, finding all his hopes of heaven eternally blasted. A second source: the full development of character then revealed. Secret acts hidden in this life become manifest in the next. Thus Proverbs 3:35 promises the wise their inheritance, while fools receive the shame their choices deserve.