DISCOURSE 8. ADDRESSED TO ‘MY SON'. AFTER APPEALING TO HIM TO OBSERVE HIS WORDS SOLOMON VIVIDLY DESCRIBES THE WILES OF AN ADULTERESS AND WARNS ‘SONS' AGAINST HER (PROVERBS 7:1). This is the fourth reference to the dangers of the ‘strange woman'. In Proverbs 2:16 the emphasis was on her betrayal of b... [ Continue Reading ]
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 appeal follows the pattern of earlier appeals. For the combination of ‘words' and ‘commandments' compa... [ Continue Reading ]
A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE SEDUCTION OF THE NAIVE YOUNG MAN BY THE ‘STRANGE WOMAN' (PROVERBS 7:6). This account divides up into three, what the father observes of the naive young man's actions (Proverbs 7:6), what the strange woman says to the naive young man (Proverbs 7:14), and the resulting r... [ Continue Reading ]
A FINAL APPEAL ADDRESSED TO ‘SONS' NOT TO FOLLOW HER BECAUSE HER WAY IS THE WAY OF DEATH (PROVERBS 7:24). This final appeal is addressed, not to ‘my son' but to ‘sons'. He may well be thinking, not only of the young man, but of those who will follow in later generations. And he calls on them not to... [ Continue Reading ]