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The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 7:24

Proverbs 7:24Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children.On impurityCicero says, “There is not a more pernicious evil to man than the lust of sensual pleasure; the fertile source of every detestable crime, and the peculiar enemy of the Divine and immortal soul” This is true of all sensual pleasures immoderately pursued and gratified beyond the demands of reason and of nature.I. How contradictory the vice of impurity is to the great laws of nature and of reason, of society and religion.1. It is... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 7:27

Proverbs 7:27Her house is the way to hell.The way to hellAn energetic expression. It is not the place itself, but the way to it. In this ease what is the difference between the way and the destination? The one is as the other, so much so that he who has entered the way may reckon upon it as a fatal certainty that he will accomplish the journey and be plunged into “the chamber of death.” No man means to go the whole length. A man’s will is not destroyed in an instant; it is taken from him, as it... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 7:1

Pro 7:1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. Ver. 1. My son, keep my words. ] Aristotle hath observed, and daily experience makes it good, that man shows his weakness no way more than about moderating the pleasure ef his tasting and touching, forasmuch as they belong to him, not as a man, but as a living creature. Now therefore as where the hedge is lowest, there the beast leaps over soonest, so Satan will be sure to assault us where we are least able to withstand him.... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 7:2

Pro 7:2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. Ver. 2. Keep my commandments, and live. ] "Live," i.e., live happily. I am the Lord that teacheth thee to profit, therefore keep my commandments; Isa 48:17 as if God should say, It is for thy profit that I command thee, and not for mine own. "In doing thereof there is great reward," saith David, Psa 19:11 and present reward, saith Solomon here, Do it and live. In the court of earthly princes there is αναβολη και... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 7:3

Pro 7:3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart. Ver. 3. Bind them upon thy fingers. ] That thou mayest have them always in sight, as God hath his people: "Behold I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands: thy walls are continually before me." Isa 49:16 The Hebrews here refer fingers to action, heart to meditation and retention. Men should have the law of God at their fingers ends. Any of us Jews, saith Josephus, being asked of any point of the law, answereth... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 7:4

Pro 7:4 Say unto wisdom, Thou [art] my sister; and call understanding [thy] kinswoman: Ver. 4. Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister, ] q.d., If thou must needs have a lady to set thy love upon, let me commend a mistress to thee more amiable and affable than any that thou canst meet with, and that is heavenly wisdom. Say unto her, Thou art my sister, &c. Christ oft woos his spouse by this title, "My sister, my spouse." As the nearest affinity is spouse, so the nearest consanguinity is... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 7:5

Pro 7:5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words. Ver. 5. That they may keep thee. ] The "wisdom from above" can and will preserve a man from hankering after strange flesh. The world’s wizards have been most of them tacked and tainted with this vice, and that by a just hand of God upon them, for the contempt of religion, Rom 1:28 which is indeed the most excellent preservative. Hence, when the apostle had said, 1Ti 4:7 "exercise... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 7:6

Pro 7:6 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, Ver. 6. I looked through my casement. ] Little did this young fool think whose eye was upon him, less did he heed the all-seeing eye of Heaven. Solomon was observing his subjects’ carriages, and found a miscarriage. Magistrates, as they have many eyes upon them (whence also they have their name in the Hebrew tongue), a so they are to have their eyes upon many, watching when other men sleep, and observing what other men... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 7:7

Pro 7:7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, Ver. 7. Among the simple ones. ] The word signifieth such a one as may be soon persuaded, easily drawn any way a by a twined thread with a wet finger; fatuellus, such as whom it is no hard matter to cozen and collude with. a Cor eius in vitium flecti. read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 7:8

Pro 7:8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, Ver. 8. Near her corner. ] Which he should have balked, according to Proverbs 5:8 . See Trapp on " Pro 5:8 " Men’s own inconsideration, security, and dallying with the beginnings of sin, or with the occasion, doth usually tempt the devil to tempt them; and he feeling their pulse thereby which way it beats, fits them a penny worth, provides them of mates, sets one Delilah or other to bind them, as she did... read more

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 7:24

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 7:27

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 7:1

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 7:2

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 7:3

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 7:4

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 7:5

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 7:6

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 7:7

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 7:8

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