_Thoughts. Or wisdom; and act with discretion. --- Mind, &c., is omitted in Hebrew and St. Jerome. (Calmet) --- By woman all concupiscence, or the inducement to sin, is commonly understood. We must not think of such things. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Sword. "It is a crime even to hearken." (St. Ambrose, de Abrah. ii. 11.) She seeks thy ruin, ver. 5., and chap. ii. 16._... [ Continue Reading ]
_They. Hebrew, "if perhaps thou ponder the path of life." (Pagnin) (Haydock) --- Or "she ponders not," &c. She walks inconsiderately, and consults only her passions, chap. vii. 10. (Calmet) --- No one can depend on her love. (Menochius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Strangers. The world, the flesh, and the devil are such; cruelly devising our ruin. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Strength. Or children, ver. 16., and Genesis xlix. 3. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Body. He alludes to a shameful disease, the just punishment of intemperance, Ecclesiasticus xix. 3._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Evil. Infirm and worn out, having lost my reputation, &c. (Calmet) --- Though I lived among the faithful, I was under no restraint. (Menochius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Well. Live comfortably on your own property, (Cajetan) with your own wife. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Waters. Mayst thou have a numerous offspring, (ver. 10.) and be liberal. Many copies of the Septuagint, &c., have a negation, with Aquila, "let not thy," &c., (Calmet) though it my be read with and interrogation, "are the waters of thy fountain to be?" &c. (De Dieu) --- By not means. Origen (in Num... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thee. Stick to thy own wife. In a moral sense, let those who instruct others, take care not to neglect themselves._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Vein. Thou shalt have a numerous progeny, Psalm lxvii. 28., and Isaias xlviii. 1. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Love. This is spoken by way of permission, and to withdraw people from unlawful connections, Ecclesiastes ii. 1., and 1 Corinthians vii. 29. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Ropes. "Evil habits unrestrained induce a necessity," (St. Augustine, Confessions viii. 5.) though not absolute. (Haydock) --- The libertine thinks he can get free as soon as he pleases; not being aware of the chains which he is forging for himself. (Calmet) --- Sin requires punishment. (Menochius)... [ Continue Reading ]
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