Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 7:24-27
We have here the application of the foregoing story: ?Hearken to me therefore, and not to such seducers (Pr. 7:24); give ear to a father, and not to an enemy.? 1. ?Take good counsel when it is given you. Let not thy heart decline to her ways (Pr. 7:25); never leave the paths of virtue, though strait and narrow, solitary and up-hill, for the way of the adulteress, though green, and broad, and crowded with company. Do not only keep thy feet from those ways, but let not so much as thy heart... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 7:6-23
Solomon here, to enforce the caution he had given against the sin of whoredom, tells a story of a young man that was ruined to all intents and purposes by the enticements of an adulterous woman. Such a story as this would serve the lewd profane poets of our age to make a play of, and the harlot with them would be a heroine; nothing would be so entertaining to the audience, nor give them so much diversion, as her arts of beguiling the young gentleman and drawing in the country squire; her... read more