Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Proverbs 5:15
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.Drink — Content thyself with those delights which God alloweth thee in the sober use of the marriage-bed. read more
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John Wesley
John Wesley
Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Proverbs 5:16
Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.Fountains — Thy children proceeding from thy wife and from thyself. Fountains are here put for rivers flowing from them.Dispersed — They shall in due time appear abroad to thy comfort, and for the good of others. read more
John Wesley
Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Proverbs 5:18
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.Fountain — Thy wife.Blessed — With children; for barrenness was esteemed a curse among the Israelites. read more
John Wesley
Wesley's Explanatory Notes - 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.Satisfy thee — At all convenient times: for that there may be excess in the marriage-bed is manifest.Ravished — Love her fervently. It is an hyperbolical expression. read more
John Wesley
Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Proverbs 5:22
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. Holden — He is in perfect bondage to his lusts, and is neither able nor wiling to set himself at liberty. read more
John Wesley
Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Proverbs 5:23
He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.Die — He shall die in his sins. Astray-From the way of life, and from eternal salvation. read more
Daniel Whedon
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 5:1
EXHORTATIONS TO CHASTITY, Proverbs 5:1-14. In this chapter the royal sage renews his exhortations to acquire wisdom, (Proverbs 5:1-2;) and, as there is nothing which is more pernicious in general, and more detrimental to the acquisition of wisdom in particular, than the unlawful indulgence of sexual desires, he earnestly dissuades his pupil therefrom by showing the character of a dissolute woman, and the ruinous consequences of attachment to such. These miserable effects are a loss of honour,... read more
Daniel Whedon
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 5:2
2. Discretion Or, counsels. That thy lips may keep Thy lips shall keep. read more
Daniel Whedon
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 5:3
3. Strange woman See note on Proverbs 2:16. The terms lips and mouth are, of course, used tropically speech, words. She uses persuasive, delusive, and fascinating arts and modes of speech. Compare Proverbs 7:14, etc. read more
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Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Proverbs 5:14
I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.A moment — In how little a time am I now come into remediless misery! Assembly - And that in the congregation of Israel, where I was taught better things. read more