Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the (a) apple of thy eye.
(a) By this diversity of words, he means that nothing should be so dear to us as the word of God, nor that we look on anything more nor mind anything so much.
Verse Proverbs 7:2. _AS THE APPLE OF THINE EYE._] As the pupil of the eye, which is of such essential necessity to sight, and so easily injured....
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...
LIVE: i.e. live for ever, in resurrection and eternal life. See note on Leviticus 18:5. Illustrations: Adam (Genesis 3:22; Genesis 3:23); Lot's wife (G
Proverbs 7:1] Compare the similar exhortations Proverbs 1:8-9; Proverbs 2:1-5; Proverbs 3:1;...
_the apple_ i.e. _the pupil_: "an emblem of that which is tenderest and dearest, and therefore guarded with the most jealous care," Psalms 17:8, note in this Series. Comp. Deuteronomy 32:10; Zechariah...
DISCOURSE: 768 LOVE TO THE HOLY SCRIPTURES INCULCATED Proverbs 7:1. _My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye....
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...
Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS, AND LIVE - and so thou shalt live (Proverbs 4:4). AND MY LAW AS THE APPLE OF THINE EYE - literally, 'th...
THE BAD WOMAN A picture drawn from life of the enticing of a young man by a wicked woman....
THE APPLE] lit. 'the little man' of the eye, so called because an image is reflected from the pupil of the eye. It is a figure for the most precious and delicate things (Deuteronomy 32:10; Psalms 17:8...
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...
Previously, Solomon told us to learn to be wise (Proverbs 2:2). Now, he tells us to keep wisdom in our hearts. Previously, Solomon told us to accept wisdom (Proverbs 2:1). Now he tells us that Wisdom...
שְׁמֹ֣ר מִצְוֹתַ֣י וֶ חְיֵ֑ה וְ֝ תֹורָתִ֗י כּ
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...
KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS AND LIVE,.... Not the commandments of the law only, but the commandments of Christ; and even the doctrines of Christ are so called, as faith in him, and love to the saints, 1 John...
Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. Ver. 2. _Keep my commandments, and live._] "Live," _i.e., _ live happily. I am the Lord that teacheth thee to profit, therefore k...
_Keep my commandments, and live_ That is, thou shalt live. It is a promise in the form of a command, as Proverbs 3:25. _And my law as the apple of thine eye_ With all possible care and diligence, as m...
Keep my commandments and live, true life following the exercise of true wisdom, AND MY LAW AS THE APPLE OF THINE EYE, literally, "as the little man of thine eye," emblem of a very precious possession,...
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...
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...
AND LIVE, i.e. thou shalt live. A promise in the form of a command, as PROVERBS 3:25. AS THE APPLE OF THINE EYE; with all possible care and diligence, as men guard that part from all dangers, yea, eve...
Proverbs 7:2 Keep H8104 (H8798) commands H4687 live H2421 (H8798) law H8451 apple H380 eye H5869 Keep
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....
CRITICAL NOTES. PROVERBS 7:2. APPLE OF THE EYE, the “pupil,” literally the “little man” of the eye, referring to the reflected image of a man seen in that organ. PROVERBS 7:3. BIND THEM “refers to r...
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...
1 John 2:3; 1 John 2:4; 1 John 5:1; Deuteronomy 32:10; Isaiah 55:3;...
Live — Thou shalt live. Eye — With all possible care and diligence....