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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 7:9

Pro 7:9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: Ver. 9. In the black and dark night. ] Thinking to obscure himself; but Solomon saw him, how much more God, cui obscura patent, muta respondent, silentium confitetur, before whom night will convert itself into noon, and silence prove a speaking evidence. Foolish men think to hide themselves from God, by hiding God from themselves. See Psalms 139:11-12 . read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 7:10

Pro 7:10 And, behold, there met him a woman [with] the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. Ver. 10. And behold there met him a woman. ] Fit lettuce for such lips, a fit handle for such a hatchet. Every corner is full of such dust heaps, the land is even darkened with them, as Egypt once was with the locusts. Exo 10:15 With the attire of an harlot. ] See Trapp on " Pro 6:25 " The Hebrew word here signifies a set habit or ornament finely fitted to the body: vestitus in quo plicae,... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 7:11

Proverbs 7:11 (She [is] loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: Ver. 11. Her feet abide not in her house. ] As the modest woman’s do, Tit 2:5 who is therefore called domiporta, set forth by the snail, which carries her house on her back, and compared to the vine, that grows by the house side. Psa 128:3 The Egyptian women wear no shoes, that they might the better keep home. Of the Italian women it is said, that they are magpies at the door, saints in the church, goats in the... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 7:12

Pro 7:12 Now [is she] without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.) Ver. 12. Now she is without. ] See Trapp on " Pro 7:11 " Further observe, that the former faults - loudness of language, stubbornness against a husband’s lawful commands and restraints, and this of gadding up and down to see and to be seen - albeit they be not certain signs, yet they are strong presumptions of a whorish disposition. read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 7:13

Pro 7:13 So she caught him, and kissed him, [and] with an impudent face said unto him, Ver. 13. So she caught him, and kissed him. ] Strange impudence in this "strange woman," who hath not her name for nought. Potiphar’s wife was such a beast; so was Messalina the empress, wife to Claudius, Joan, queen of Naples, and other prodigious strumpets, of the kind of those whom they call Borboritae. We have heard, saith a grave divine, a of virgins, which at first seemed modest, blushing at the... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 7:14

Proverbs 7:14 [I have] peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows. Ver. 14. I have peace offerings. ] Sacris abutitur, ut sceleratis mos est; a she pretends religion to her filthy practices. So did those wicked women that lay with Eli’s sons at the door of the tabernacle. 1Sa 2:22 So did King Edward IV’s holy whore, as he used to call her, b that came to him out of a nunnery when he used to call for her. And such were those kedesheth, or common whores, so called in Hebrew,... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 7:15

Pro 7:15 Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee. Ver. 15. Therefore came I forth. ] As having much good cheer at home, as at all peace offerings they had. Gluttony is the gallery that lustfulness walks through. a Diligently to seek thy face. ] Or, Thy person, not thy purse; thee, not thine do I seek. Quis credit? who belives that? And I have found thee. ] By a providence, no doubt; God must have a hand in it, or else it is marvel. "God hath... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 7:16

Pro 7:16 I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved [works], with fine linen of Egypt. Ver. 16. I have decked my bed. ] Lest haply by being abroad so late he should question where to have a bed, she assures him of a dainty one, with curious curtains. read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 7:17

Pro 7:17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. Ver. 17. With myrrh, aloes, &c. ] This might have minded the young man that he was going to his grave; for the bodies of the dead were so perfumed. Such a meditation would have much rebated his edge, cooled his courage. Jerusalem’s filthiness was "in her skirts"; and why? "She remembered not her latter end" Lam 1:9 As the strokings of a dead hand, they say, cureth a tympany; and as the ashes of a viper applied to the part... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 7:18

Pro 7:18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves. Ver. 18. Until the morning. ] But what if death draw the curtains, and look in the while? If death do not, yet guilt will. And here beasts are more happy in carnal contentments than sensual voluptaries; for in their delights they seldom surfeit, but never sin; and so never find any cause or use for pangs of repentance, as epicures do, whose pleasure passeth, but a sting stays behind. Job... read more

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