George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Proverbs 7:5
Thine. But another's, ver. 19. Give thy heart to wisdom, that it may be guarded against impure love.
Thine. But another's, ver. 19. Give thy heart to wisdom, that it may be guarded against impure love.
Verse Proverbs 7:5. _THE STRANGE WOMAN_] The _prostitute_, the _adulteress_....
CHAPTER 7 The entire chapter is a continuation of the strange woman and the warning against her. The Word and the law of the Lord will keep the obedient son from her. If Solomon had obeyed the Word of...
The longest and most elaborate description of the adulteress, the fate of her victim, and the value of wisdom as a safeguard. PROVERBS 7:1. General advice to the young man to observe the commandment...
STRANGE. apostate. Hebrew. _zur._ See note on Proverbs 5:3. STRANGER. alien, or foreigner. See note on Proverbs 5:3. FLATTERETH. maketh smooth....
_strange woman … stranger_ See Proverbs 2:16, note. _flattereth with_ "Heb. _maketh smooth her words_," R.V. marg....
CHAPTER 7 TEXT Proverbs 7:1-12 1. My son, keep my words, And lay up my commandments with thee. 2. Keep my commandments and live; And my law as the apple of thine eye. 3. Bind them upon thy fin...
That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words. THAT THEY MAY KEEP THEE FROM THE STRANGE WOMAN ... (WHICH) FLATTERETH WITH HER WORDS - (.) It is...
THE BAD WOMAN A picture drawn from life of the enticing of a young man by a wicked woman....
Especially, wisdom will protect us when evil things attract us. As in earlier Chapter s, Solomon writes about sex. However, he is thinking about all types of evil behaviour. His story warns us about p...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 7 PROVERBS CHAPTER S 7 TO 9 The last, and greatest, of Solomon’s lessons, begins here. Since chapter 1, we have read the words that Solomon t...
לִ֭ שְׁמָרְךָ מֵ אִשָּׁ֣ה זָרָ֑ה מִ֝ נָּכְרִי
CHAPTER 8 REALISM IN MORAL TEACHING "I looked forth through my lattice; and I beheld." Proverbs 7:6 THE three Chapter s which close the introduction of our book (7-9) present a lively and picturesqu...
This is a second parental exhortation, and consists of a warning against the allurements of the strange woman. A graphic picture of the seduction of a youth void of understanding is given. The woman w...
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...
THAT THEY MAY KEEP THEE FROM THE STRANGE WOMAN,.... Nothing has a greater tendency than Christ and his Gospel, and an intimate acquaintance with them, and a retention of them, to keep from all sin, fr...
That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words. Ver. 5. _That they may keep thee._] The "wisdom from above" can and will preserve a man from hanke...
_That they may keep thee from the strange woman_ One reason why Solomon so often cautions his disciple in this manner, and inculcates upon him the important duty of shunning all acquaintance with lewd...
CONDEMNATION OF FORNICATION AND ADULTERY. On account of the terrible devastation wrought by sins of adultery and by every gratification of sexual desires outside of holy wedlock, affecting not only t...
that they may keep thee from the strange woman, the harlots in Israel being originally foreigners, FROM THE STRANGER WHICH FLATTERETH WITH HER WORDS, her object being to allure and seduce with smooth...
1-5 We must lay up God's commandments safely. Not only, Keep them, and you shall live; but, Keep them as those that cannot live without them. Those that blame strict and careful walking as needless a...
This privilege Solomon doth so oft inculcate, either because he found in himself the great power and besotting nature of lustful inclinations: or because he observed these vices to abound more in his...
Proverbs 7:5 keep H8104 (H8800) immoral H2114 (H8801) woman H802 seductress H5237 flatters H2505 (H8689) words...
AN APPEAL TO ‘MY SON' TO OBSERVE HIS WORDS AND HIS COMMANDMENTS AND TO TAKE WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING AS HIS CLOSE FEMALE RELATIVES, SO AS TO BE PROTECTED FROM THE FOREIGN WOMAN (PROVERBS 7:1). This ap...
CONTENTS: Warning against all approaches to the sin of adultery. CHARACTERS: Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: The Word of God, if used for a defense and armor, will keep one from the strange woman and...
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....
_That they may keep thee from the strange woman._ HEAVENLY WISDOM PROTECTIVE I. Knowledge is a special means to keep us from wantonness. 1. By way of excellency. Wisdom is far more beautiful than t...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 7:1 13. _Thirteenth admonitory discourse, _containing a warning against adultery, treated under a different aspect from previous exhortations, and strengthened by an example. In...
He 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 li...
Proverbs 2:16; Proverbs 5:3; Proverbs 6:24...