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Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 7:22

Straightway; without delay and consideration. As an ox to the slaughter; either being drawn and driven to it; or going to it securely, as if it were going to a good pasture. As a fool to the correction of the stocks; or, which is more agreeable to the order of the words in the Hebrew text, as one in fetters, or bound with fetters, to the correction of a fool, i.e. to receive such correction or punishment as belongs to fools; which may imply either, 1. That he hath no more sense of the shame and... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Proverbs 7:6-27

CRITICAL NOTES. Proverbs 7:7. Simple, “inexperienced.” Proverbs 7:8. Went, “moved leisurely, sauntered.” Proverbs 7:9. In the black and dark night, literally, “in the apple,” or “pupil” of the night. Proverbs 7:10. Literally, “a woman, the attire of a harlot,” with no connecting word between, as though the woman were nothing but such a dress. Subtil, “guarded.” Wordsworth renders “her heart is like a walled fortress.” Proverbs 7:11. Stubborn, rather “boisterous, ungovernable.” Proverbs 7:14.... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Proverbs 7:1-27

Chapter 7He continues his exhortation to the son in chapter 7. Still talking about these women that are the wrong sort.My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the pupil of your eye. Bind them upon your fingers, write them on the table of your heart. Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman: That they may keep thee from the strange woman, and from the stranger who flatters with her words (... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Proverbs 7:1-27

Proverbs 7:1 . Keep my words lay up my commandments. These terms being of constant occurrence in the didactic scriptures, will be found explained in the beginning of the hundred and nineteenth psalm. Proverbs 7:2 . Keep my law, as the apple of thine eye; a most precious, beautiful, and tender sense. The idea is often repeated, as in Deuteronomy 32:10. Psalms 17:8. Proverbs 7:3 . Bind them upon thy fingers, as the phylacteries. Deuteronomy 6:8. Love them, have them always at hand,... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 7:22

Proverbs 7:22As a fool to the correction of the stocks. Slaughter of young men1. We are apt to blame young men for being destroyed, when we ought to blame the influences that destroy them. Society slaughters a great many young men by the behest, “You must keep up appearances.” Our young men are growing up in a depraved state of commercial ethics, and I want to warn them against being slaughtered on the sharp edges of debt. For the sake of your own happiness, for the sake of your good morals,... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 7:22

Pro 7:22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; Ver. 22. He goeth after her straightway. ] Without any consideration of the sad consequences. Lust had blinded and besotted him, and even transformed him into a brute. Nos animas etiam incarnavimus, saith one. Many men have made their very spirit a lump of flesh, and are hurried on to hell with greatest violence. Chide them, you do but give medicine in a fit; counsel them,... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Proverbs 7:22

straightway: Heb. suddenly as an: Acts 14:13 as a: Dr. Grey, making a slight alteration in the text, renders, "as a dog to the chain, and as a deer, till a dart strike through his liver;" and Dr. Hunt, "Or as a hart boundeth into the toils, till a dart strike through his liver." The LXX, Chaldee, Syriac, and Arabic, concur in this interpretation. The circumstance of the dart, as applied to the deer, is beautiful and proper, which otherwise we are at a loss to dispose of; and this creature,... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Proverbs 7:22

He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;As an ox — Going to it securely, as if it were going to a good pasture. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 7:1-27

A FURTHER EXHORTATION TO FILIAL OBEDIENCE AND THE CULTIVATION OF WISDOM, AND TO WALK IN THE PATHS OF PURITY, Proverbs 7:1-27. Such is the importance of the subject discussed in the latter part of the last chapter, as also in the second and fifth chapters, that the teacher continues, with increasing earnestness, to warn his pupils against the seductive wiles of dissolute women. Therefore, after an exhortation, such as we have before met with, to cleave lovingly to wisdom as a preservative... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 7:22-23

22, 23. He goeth after her The participle הולךְ , ( holekh,) goeth, involves its own nominative, which may as well be an indefinite one, he who, or whoever; and the teacher may not so much intend to give historically the fate of this particular youth, as the general results of such indulgence. Such a conclusion to a poetic narrative a sudden transition from the particular to the general is altogether in the Hebrew manner. See Judges 5:31. These verses are somewhat involved, and... read more

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