George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Proverbs 5:19
Love. This is spoken by way of permission, and to withdraw people from unlawful connections, Ecclesiastes ii. 1., and 1 Corinthians vii. 29. (Calmet)
Love. This is spoken by way of permission, and to withdraw people from unlawful connections, Ecclesiastes ii. 1., and 1 Corinthians vii. 29. (Calmet)
Verse Proverbs 5:19. _THE LOVING HIND AND PLEASANT ROE_] By אילת _aiyeleth_, the _deer_; by יעלה _yaalah_, the _ibex_ or mountain _goat_, may be meant. _LET HER BREASTS SATISFY THEE_] As the infant i...
Better, “A loving hind (is she) and pleasant roe.” As in the whole circle of Arab and Persian poetry the antelope and the gazelle are the chosen images of beauty, so they served with equal fitness for...
CHAPTER 5 _ 1. Shun the strange woman and sinful passion (Proverbs 5:1)_ 2. The life of chastity (Proverbs 5:15) Proverbs 5:1. It is a warning against literal fornication and the accompanying spirit...
PROVERBS 5:1; PROVERBS 5:10; PROVERBS 5:20. Three hortatory discourses exactly similar to those in Proverbs 5:2 and...
The remedy against sin is to be found in the holy estate which God has ordained. "The resemblance between the two Books (the Song of Solomon and the Book of Proverbs) in their treatment of this subjec...
Let her be as] These words, which are not in the Hebrew, are not wanted. Read "A loving hind &c." The imagery again, which is thoroughly Oriental, reappears in the Song of Solomon (Proverbs 2:9; Prove...
LET HER BE AS THE LOVING HIND— Bishop Patrick observes, that the wise man describes allegorically the felicities of the nuptial state under the comparison of a domestic fountain, where a man may quenc...
TEXT Proverbs 5:15-23 15. Drink waters out of thine own cistern, And running waters out of thine own well. 16. Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, And streams of water in the streets? 17....
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. (LET HER BE AS) THE LOVING HIND AND PLEASANT ROE - or antelope;...
The opening words are an exclamation: 'Lovely hind! Charming wild goat!'...
UNHOLY PASSION. HALLOWED LOVE A dissuasive from immorality addressed exclusively to men. The two leading thoughts are (1) the disastrous consequences of adultery; loss of honour, property, life, oppo...
Marriage is God’s gift. A husband and wife should give themselves to each other. They should enjoy their marriage. They should love each other. They attract each other, and this is good. V21 God sees...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 5 Chapter 5 is a poem. The poem has two subjects: 1. A married woman tempts a man who is not her husband. 2. Evil things are like this woman,...
(15-20) DRINK WATERS OUT OF THINE OWN CISTERN... — In these verses Solomon urges his disciples to follow after purity in the married life; he pictures in vivid terms the delights which it affords as c...
LOVING HIND AND PLEASANT ROE. — The deer and chamois, from their grace and speed and lustrous eyes, have always been chosen by the Oriental poets as figures of human strength and beauty. (Comp. Song o...
אַיֶּ֥לֶת אֲהָבִ֗ים וְֽ יַעֲלַ֫ת ־חֵ֥ן דַּ֭דֶּיהָ...
CHAPTER 6 THE WAYS AND ISSUES OF SIN "His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin. He shall die for lack of instruction; And in the greatness of his fo...
This is a parental exhortation against impurity. It is expressed in words of great delicacy and beauty, but it is none the less urgent and searching. It recognizes one of the most subtle and natural t...
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. Let them be only thine own, and not strange...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 9. There are two very distinct parts in this book. The first nine Chapter s, which give the great general principles; and the proverbs, properly so...
[LET HER BE AS] THE LOVING HIND AND PLEASANT ROE,.... That is, the wife of youth; let her always appear to thee as amiable and lovely as these creatures are; or let her be loved by thee as these are b...
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. Ver. 19. _Let her be as the loving hind, &c._] Th...
_Let her be as the loving hind_ Hebrew, _as the hind of loves;_ as amiable and delightful as the hinds are to princes and great men, who used to make them tame and familiar, and to take great delight...
Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe, or the graceful gazelle, emblems of the graceful, fascinating, lively nature of a young wife; LET HER BREASTS SATISFY THEE AT ALL TIMES, her bosom charm...
CHASTITY CONTRASTED WITH UNCHASTITY...
SATISFY THEE: _ Heb._ water thee AND BE THOU RAVISHED ALWAYS WITH HER LOVE: _ Heb._ err thou always in her love...
15-23 Lawful marriage is a means God has appointed to keep from these destructive vices. But we are not properly united, except as we attend to God's word, seeking his direction and blessing, and act...
AS THE LOVING HIND, or, _as the beloved hind_, Heb. _the hind of loves_; as amiable and delightful as the hinds are, either, 1. To their males, the harts; or, 2. To princes and great men, who used to...
Proverbs 5:19 loving H158 deer H365 graceful H2580 doe H3280 breasts H1717 satisfy H7301 (H8762) times H6256 always
SOLOMON CALLS ON HIS SON TO BE FAITHFUL TO HIS TRUE WIFE, AND TO OBTAIN HIS SEXUAL ENJOYMENTS FROM HER (PROVERBS 5:15). In contrast Solomon now brings home to ‘his son' (Proverbs 5:20) the joys of sex...
CONTENTS: Caution against the sin of whoredom. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: We ought industriously to avoid everything that might be an occasion of the sin of adultery or a step to...
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....
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 5:18 The intimacy of marriage provides the place where sexual desires are rightly expressed for the enjoyment (REJOICE) and good (BE BLESSED) of both husband and wife....
_ILLUSTRATION OF Proverbs 5:19_ Here 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...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 5:1 8. _Eighth admonitory discourse. Warning against adultery, and commendation of marriage. _The teacher, in this discourse, recurs to a subject which he has glanced at before in...
Now 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...
2 Samuel 12:4; Proverbs 5:15; Song of Solomon 2:9; Song of Solomon 4:5;...
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....