Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Proverbs 7:6
(b) For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
(b) Solomon uses this parable to declare their folly, who allow themselves to be abused by harlots.
(b) For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
(b) Solomon uses this parable to declare their folly, who allow themselves to be abused by harlots.
Verse Proverbs 7:6. _I LOOKED THROUGH MY CASEMENT_] The _casement_ is a small aperture in a large window, or a window opening on hinges. Here it means the _lattice_, for they had no _glass windows_ in...
CASEMENT - The latticed opening of an Eastern house, overlooking the street (compare Judges 5:28)....
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...
_casement_ Or, LATTICE, R.V., as the same Heb. word is translated in A.V. in Judges 5:28, the only other place in which it occurs. Proverbs 7:7. A few graphic strokes draw the picture of the victim....
I LOOKED THROUGH MY CASEMENT— _Through the lattice._ In Palestine they had no glass to their windows; they closed them with lattices or curtains....
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...
For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, FOR AT THE WINDOW OF MY HOUSE I LOOKED THROUGH MY CASEMENT - "the lattice" (), whence one could see what was going on in the street, with...
THE BAD WOMAN A picture drawn from life of the enticing of a young man by a wicked woman....
THE WINDOW is the opening; the CASEMENT is the lattice-work filling it, looking through which one may see and remain unseen....
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...
The story begins here. Solomon was watching the people. He was watching, because he wanted to learn more. He wanted to see other people’s mistakes. He wanted to understand more. He wanted to become wi...
כִּ֭י בְּ חַלֹּ֣ון בֵּיתִ֑י בְּעַ֖ד אֶשְׁנַבִּ֣י...
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...
_Lattice. No glass was used, on account of the great heat. (Calmet)_...
For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, Passing through the street near her corne...
_SIMPLETONS ATTRACT SEDUCERS_ ‘At the window of my house I looked through my casement, and beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding.’ Proverbs 7:...
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...
FOR AT THE WINDOW OF MY HOUSE,.... This is either an historical account of a matter of fact known to Solomon, or a parable made by him, setting forth the cunning artifices of an harlot, the folly and...
For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, Ver. 6. _I looked through my casement._] Little did this young fool think whose eye was upon him, less did he heed the all-seeing eye of He...
_For I looked through my casement_ Hebrew, בעד אשׁנבי, _per fenestellam meam, my little window_, or _lattice_, rather. For “in Palestine they had no glass to their windows: they closed them with latti...
For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, through the lattice-work found on Oriental windows which face the street,...
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...
6-27 Here is an affecting example of the danger of youthful lusts. It is a history or a parable of the most instructive kind. Will any one dare to venture on temptations that lead to impurity, after...
This is either an historical relation, or rather a parabolical representation of that which frequently happened....
Proverbs 7:6 window H2474 house H1004 looked H8259 (H8738) lattice H822 at the - Genesis 26:8;...
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 (Pro...
Proverbs 7:6 From Solomon's observation we learn: I. The special perils of great cities. (1) The vastness and multitudinousness of many of our modern cities provide a secrecy which is congenial to vi...
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....
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 7:6 The SIMPLE and the YOUNG stumble into adultery by putting themselves in the wrong place (v. Proverbs 7:8
CRITICAL NOTES. PROVERBS 7:7. SIMPLE, “inexperienced.” PROVERBS 7:8. WENT, “moved leisurely, sauntered.” PROVERBS 7:9. IN THE BLACK AND DARK NIGHT, literally, “in the apple,” or “pupil” of the night...
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...
2 Samuel 6:16; Genesis 26:8...