Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 5:10
Strangers; not only the strange women themselves, but bawds, panders, and other adulterers, who are in league with them. Thy labours; wealth gotten by thy labours. read more
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Matthew Poole
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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 5:11
Thou mourn at the last; bitterly bewail thy own madness and misery when it is too late. Thy flesh and thy body; thy flesh, even thy body; the particle and being put expositively. Consumed by those manifold diseases which filthy and inordinate lusts bring upon the body, of which physicians give a very large and sad catalogue, and the bodies of many adulterers give full proof. read more
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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 5:12
How have I hated instruction! oh what a mad beast have I been, to hate and slight the fair warnings which were given me, and against mine own knowledge, to run headlong into this pit of destruction! which are not the words of a true penitent mourning for and turning from his sin, but only of a man who is grieved for the sad effects of his delightful lusts, and tormented with the horror of his own guilty conscience. My heart despised reproof; I did with my whole heart abhor all admonitions. read more
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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 5:13
Of my teachers; of my parents, and friends, and ministers, who faithfully and seasonably informed me of those mischiefs and miseries which now I feel. read more
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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 5:14
I was almost in all evil. Oh what a miserable man am I! There is scarce any misery, in respect of estate, or body, or soul, into which I am not already plunged. The words also are and may well be rendered thus, In a moment I am come into all evil. In how little a time, and for what short and momentary pleasures, am I now come into extreme and remediless misery! In the midst of the congregation and assembly: I, who designed and expected to enjoy my lusts with secrecy and impunity, am now made a... read more
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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 5:15
This metaphor contained here, and Proverbs 5:16-18, is to be understood either, 1. Of the free and lawful use of a man’s estate, both for his own comfort, and for the good of others. Or rather, 2. Of the honest use of matrimony, as the proper remedy against these filthy practices. This best suits with the whole context, both foregoing and following; and thus it is explained in the end of Proverbs 5:18. So the sense is, Content thyself with those delights which God alloweth thee, with the sober... read more
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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 5:16
Thy fountains; thy children proceeding from thy wife, called thy fountain, Proverbs 5:18, and from thyself, as the Israelites are said to come from the fountain of Israel, Deuteronomy 33:28; Psalms 68:26. Compare Isaiah 51:1. And fountains are here put for rivers flowing from them, as it is explained in the next clause, and as it is Psalms 104:10, by a metonymy of the cause for the effect. And this title may be the more fitly given to children, because as they are rivers in respect of their... read more
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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 5:17
Hereby thou mayst be secured, that thou dost not father and leave thine estate to other men’s children; whereas the parents of harlots’ children are common or uncertain. read more
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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 5:18
Thy fountain; thy wife, as the next clause explains it. Be blessed; she shall be blessed with children; for barrenness was esteemed a curse and reproach, especially among the Israelites. Or rather, she shall be a blessing and a comfort to thee, as it follows, and not a curse and a snare, as a harlot will be. Rejoice with the wife; seek not to harlots for that delight which God alloweth thee to take with thy wife. So here he explains the foregoing metaphor, and applies it to his present design.... read more
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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 5:9
Thine honour; thy dignity and reputation, the strength and rigour of thy body and mind, which is an honour to a man, and which are commonly wasted by adulterous practices. Unto others; unto whores, and their husbands, and children, and friends. Thy years; the flower of thine age, thy youthful years. Unto the cruel; to the harlot, who though she pretends ardent love and kindness to thee, yet in truth is one of the most cruel creatures in the world, wasting thy estate and, body without the least... read more