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Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Proverbs 5:15-23

Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. Let them be only thine own, and not strangers with thee. Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love. And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Proverbs 5:23

REFLECTIONS PRECIOUS Jesus! at the very mention of thy name, how do all lesser objects lose their interest; and what an everlasting security is there found in thee, while living upon thy fulness, and deriving all strength for the practice of every social and religious obligation, in the communications of thy grace! Yes, blessed Lord, the cisterns of my poor soul, which thou hast filled, shall make me love to run to the fountain head, beholding from whence they flow, and how they are supplied... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Proverbs 5:2

Thoughts. Or wisdom; and act with discretion. --- Mind, &c., is omitted in Hebrew and St. Jerome. (Calmet) --- By woman all concupiscence, or the inducement to sin, is commonly understood. We must not think of such things. (Worthington) read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Proverbs 5:4

Sword. "It is a crime even to hearken." (St. Ambrose, de Abrah. ii. 11.) She seeks thy ruin, ver. 5., and chap. ii. 16. read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Proverbs 5:6

They. Hebrew, "if perhaps thou ponder the path of life." (Pagnin) (Haydock) --- Or "she ponders not," &c. She walks inconsiderately, and consults only her passions, chap. vii. 10. (Calmet) --- No one can depend on her love. (Menochius) read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Proverbs 5:9

Strangers. The world, the flesh, and the devil are such; cruelly devising our ruin. (Worthington) read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Proverbs 5:10

Strength. Or children, ver. 16., and Genesis xlix. 3. (Calmet) read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Proverbs 5:11

Body. He alludes to a shameful disease, the just punishment of intemperance, Ecclesiasticus xix. 3. read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Proverbs 5:14

Evil. Infirm and worn out, having lost my reputation, &c. (Calmet) --- Though I lived among the faithful, I was under no restraint. (Menochius) read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Proverbs 5:15

Well. Live comfortably on your own property, (Cajetan) with your own wife. (Calmet) read more

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