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Proverbs 5:1,2
Solomon begins his lesson in the usual way. He reminds us why we need wisdom and knowledge. With wisdom and knowledge, we can avoid danger.
Solomon begins his lesson in the usual way. He reminds us why we need wisdom and knowledge. With wisdom and knowledge, we can avoid danger.
CHAPTER V _Farther exhortations to acquire wisdom_, 1, 2. _The character of a loose woman, and the ruinous consequences_ _of attachment to such_, 3-14. _Exhortations to chastity and moderation_, 1...
The formula of a new counsel, introducing another warning against the besetting sin of youth Proverbs 2:16....
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...
MY SON. See note on Proverbs 1:8. UNDERSTANDING =. discernment....
Tenth Address. Chap. 5. Proverbs 5:1 The subject of this chapter, of which the seventh commandment might be the title, is one throughout. Against the unholy passion to be shunned (Proverbs 5:1) is se...
MY SON ATTEND, &C.— There being nothing to which youth is so prone as to give up themselves to their fleshly desires, and nothing so pernicious to them as to converse with harlots, the wise man renews...
CHAPTER 5 TEXT Proverbs 5:1-14 1. My son, attend unto my wisdom; Incline thine ear to my understanding: 2. That thou mayest preserve discretion, And that thy lips may keep knowledge. 3. For th...
My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding: Proverbs 5:1.-Prefatory exhortation to the study of wisdom. Warning again the love of strange women, whose words are smooth, bu...
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...
בְּ֭נִי לְ חָכְמָתִ֣י הַקְשִׁ֑יבָה לִ֝ תְבוּנָתִ֗י...
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...
QUICKSANDS! KEEP OFF! Proverbs 5:1-14 It is a matter for great thankfulness that the Bible, which is God's book rather than man's, deals so strongly and wisely with one great evil, which has manifest...
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...
CONTENTS We have in this Chapter, and in a similar strain, to the former chapter, an exhortation to the study of Wisdom: and both the blessed effects of that study and the sad consequences of the neg...
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...
MY SON, ATTEND UNTO MY WISDOM,.... Not the wisdom of the world or of the flesh, worldly wisdom and carnal policy; but spiritual and evangelical wisdom; such as one that is greater than Solomon has in...
_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 p...
_My son, attend unto my wisdom_ “There being nothing,” says Bishop Patrick, “to which youth is so prone as to give up themselves to satisfy their fleshly desires, and nothing proving so pernicious to...
My son, attend unto my wisdom, giving heed to its precepts, AND BOW THINE EAR, in the attitude of the most careful listening, TO MY UNDERSTANDING, both the possession of knowledge and the proper exerc...
WARNING AGAINST WANTONNESS...
1-14 Solomon cautions all young men, as his children, to abstain from fleshly lusts. Some, by the adulterous woman, here understand idolatry, false doctrine, which tends to lead astray men's minds an...
PROVERBS CHAPTER 5 An exhortation to the study of wisdom, PROVERBS 5:1,2. To shun the company of strange women, PROVERBS 5:3. The mischief of whoredom and riots, PROVERBS 5:14. In a married estate exh...
Proverbs 5:1 son H1121 attention H7181 (H8685) wisdom H2451 Lend H5186 (H8685) ear H241 understanding H8394...
THE NEED TO LISTEN TO SOLOMON'S WISDOM AND NOT TO BE ENTICED BY THE WORDS OF THE STRANGE WOMAN WHICH LEAD TO DEATH AND SLAVERY (PROVERBS 5:1). The constant reference to the need to avoid the enticemen...
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....
_My son, attend unto my wisdom._ CAUTION AGAINST SEXUAL SINS The scope of the passage is a warning against seventh-commandment sins, which youth is so prone to, the temptations to which are so viole...
_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...
James 1:19; Mark 4:23; Matthew 3:9; Proverbs 2:1; Proverbs 22:17;...