Proverbs 5

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 5:13

Pro 5:13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! Ver. 13. Nor inclined mine ear. ] I would not so much as hear them, nmch less obey their voice. Intus existens prohibet alienum. The songs of those syrens had so enchanted him, that it was past time of day to give him counsel. If you speak against his sweet sin, and dissuade him from that, he shrinks back into the shell, and lets his hood hearken. All that is of ‘Davy Dutton’s dream,’ as... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 5:14

Pro 5:14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. Ver. 14. I was almost in all evil. ] Abraham Ben Ezra reads it in the future tense, Brevi ero in omni malo, I shall shortly be in all evil; and so his repentance here appears to be poenitentia sera, Iscariotica, such as was that of Judas and of those popelings, Rev 18:19 a desperate repentance, and not "toward God," Act 20:24 not a repentance for sin, as it is offensivum Dei, et aversivum a Deo, an offence... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 5:15

Pro 5:15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. Ver. 15. Drink waters out of thine own cistern. ] After other preservatives from fornication, as not to think of or speak with the harlot, not to come near the doors of her house, &c., but to consider the many mischiefs that follow upon it - a diseased body, a damned soul, a poor purse, &c. - here the wise man prescribeth wedlock as a remedy properly ordained by God for that end. 1 Corinthians 7:2... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 5:16

Pro 5:16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, [and] rivers of waters in the streets. Ver. 16. Let thy fountains be dispersed. ] "Thy fountains," that is, thy children. Let thine end in marrying be, that thou mayest have a numerous offspring, that may be as an infantry to the kingdom of heaven. Lawful marriage is usually blessed with many children; and the contrary. Hos 4:10 Erasmus tells of one Combe, a young woman in Euboea, that being married to one whom she liked, became mother and... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 5:17

Pro 5:17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee. Ver. 17. Let them be only thine own. ] Sint, vel erunt; Let them be, or they shall be. It is both an exhortation and a promise; q.d., Far be it from thee to be a pander to thine own bed, as the Lituanians, of whom Maginus relates that they have their connubii adiutores, their coadjutors in wedlock, and prize them far above all their acquaintance. God also will bless thee with an honest wife, that shall be true to thy... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 5:18

Pro 5:18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. Ver. 18. Let thy fountain be blessed. ] Or, Thy fountain shall be blessed, thy wife shall be fruitful, as Psalms 128:3 , that psalm for Solomon, whose many wives brought him but few children. We read but of one son that he had, who was none of the wisest neither, and two daughters, both of them subjects. Our Henry VIII, though blameworthy for women too, was more happy in King Edward his son, that orbis deliciae, and... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 5:19

Proverbs 5:19 [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. Ver. 19. Let her be as the loving hind, &c. ] The hind and the roe are the females of the hart and roebuck, of which creatures it is noted that of all other beasts they are most enamoured, a as I may so speak, with their mates, and even mate again in their heat, and desire after them. This being taken in a good sense, may set forth the... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 5:20

Pro 5:20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? Ver. 20. And why wilt thou, my son? ] The premises considered, there is no reason for it, but all against it. Nothing is more irrational than irreligion, and yet nothing more usual with the devil than to persuade his vassals that there is some sense in sinning, and that they have reason to be mad. And, truly, though there were no devil, yet our corrupt nature would act Satan’s part... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 5:21

Pro 5:21 For the ways of man [are] before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings. Ver. 21. For the ways of man, &c. ] Turpe quid acturus te sine teste time. a A man that is about any evil should stand in awe of himself; how much more of God, since he is πανοφθαλμος , all eye, and beholdeth the most secret of thine actions. The proverb is, Si non caste, saltem caute, Carry the matter, if not honestly, yet so closely and cleanly that the world may be never the wiser. How... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 5:22

Pro 5:22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. Ver. 22. His own iniquities shall take the wicked. ] As so many sergeants set on by God; who will surely hamper these unruly beasts, that think to shift and escape his fingers, with the cords of their own sins, binding them hand and foot, and bringing them to condign punishment. So that, say the adulterer be not punished by the magistrate, or come off by comnmtation, yet he shall feel... read more

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 5:13

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 5:14

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 5:15

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 5:16

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 5:17

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 5:18

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 5:19

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 5:20

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 5:21

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 5:22

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