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Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 5:6

Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, to prevent thy serious consideration of the way and manner of rescuing thyself from this deadly course of life. Movable; various and changeable. She transforms herself into several shapes, to accommodate herself to the humours of her lovers, and hath a thousand arts and deceits to ensnare them, and hold them fast. Thou canst not know them; thou canst not discover all her subtle practices, and much less deliver thyself from them. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Proverbs 5:1-20

ILLUSTRATION OF Proverbs 5:19Here we have started up, and sent leaping over the plain, another of Solomon’s favourites. What elegant creatures those gazelles are, and how gracefully they bound. We shall meet them all through Syria and Palestine, and the more you see of them the greater will be your admiration. Solomon is not alone in his partiality. Persian and Arab poets abound in reference to them. The fair ones of these fervid sons of song are often compared to the coy gazelle that comes by... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Proverbs 5:1-23

Chapter 5Now my son, attend unto my wisdom, bow your ear to my understanding: That you may regard discretion, and that your lips may keep knowledge ( Proverbs 5:1 , Proverbs 5:2 ).And now he's going to warn his son again about the strange woman.For the lips of a strange woman drop as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: But her end is bitter as wormwood ( Proverbs 5:3-4 ),Now, though her lips drop like a honeycomb, all the sweetness and sugar and all, yet the end is bitter. Bitter... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Proverbs 5:1-23

Proverbs 5:3 . The lips of a strange woman drop as a honey-comb. She employs all her arts for bread, for drunkenness, for crime. How wretched, how bitter is the life of a ruined and abandoned woman. Their number is now alarming to the state. The men who support them are equal in number. Asylums are inadequate to remedy the hundredth part of the evil. In the purer ages of patriarchal society, they were put to death. When Tamar was pregnant, Judah said, “Bring her forth, and let her be... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 5:1-14

Proverbs 5:1-14My son, attend unto my wisdom. Caution against sexual sinsThe scope of the passage is a warning against seventh-commandment sins, which youth is so prone to, the temptations to which are so violent, the examples of which are so many, and which, where admitted, are so destructive to all the seeds of virtue in the soul. We are warned--I. That we do not listen to the charms of this sin.1. How fatal the consequences will be! The terrors of conscience. The torments of hell.2. How... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 5:2

Proverbs 5:2That thou mayest regard discretion.The wise man’s intention in giving adviceSome knit these words to what follows, and understand them thus: “I wish thee to hearken to wise counsels, that thy heart may not admit thoughts of the beauty of strumpets, nor thy lips talk of such wanton objects as they talk of, but that thy thoughts and words may be sober and honest.” Others knit them to the words before, as if he had said, “Observe my wise precepts, that thou mayest well ruminate of... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 5:3-5

Proverbs 5:3-5For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb.A strange womanOne outside of the true family bonds and relationships. This description has been regarded by expositors as having a double sense.1. It is a portrait of a harlot, especially one of foreign extraction.2. It is a representation of the allurements of unsound doctrine and corrupt worship.I. We have here a description of the strange woman.1. Her vile, unclean, flattering, enticing speech.2. Her fate: her end bitter,... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 5:6

Proverbs 5:6Her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them. The movable ways of the tempterThe wiseman lets us know how foolish it is for men to flatter themselves with the hope that they shall by and by be truly disposed and enabled to repent of their sin. The temptress can form her mode of behaviour into a hundred shapes to entangle the heart of the lover. She spreads a thousand snares, and if you escape one of them, you will find yourself held fast by another. She knows well how to... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 5:1

Pro 5:1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, [and] bow thine ear to my understanding: Ver. 1. My son, attend unto my wisdom. ] Aristotle a could say that young men are but cross and crooked hearers of moral philosophy, and have much need to be stirred up to diligent attendance. Fornication is by many of them held a peccadillo; and Aristotle spareth not to confess the disability of moral wisdom to rectify the intemperance of nature; which also he made good in his practice, for he used a common... read more

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