Proverbs 6:25

Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids. LUST NOT AFTER HER BEAUTY IN THINE HEART. Not only the outward act but the inward desire is sin (; cf. ). Suppress the first suggestions and voluptuous emotions of the flesh. NEITHER LET HER TAKE THEE WITH HER EYELIDS - with the beauty of her eyelids, and their wanton motion, drawing thee aside from the right way. Oriental females used to paint the eyelids to make the eyes look more beautiful (; )....

20-35 The word of God has something to say to us upon all occasions. Let not faithful reproofs ever make us uneasy. When we consider how much this sin abounds, how heinous adultery is in its own nature, of what evil consequence it is, and how certainly it destroys the spiritual life in the soul, we shall not wonder that the cautions against it are so often repeated. Let us notice the subjects of this chapter. Let us remember Him who willingly became our Surety, when we were strangers and enemies. And shall Christians, who have such prospects, motives, and examples, be slothful and careless? Shall we neglect what is pleasing to God, and what he will graciously reward? May we closely watch every sense by which poison can enter our minds or affections....

Verse Proverbs 6:25. _NEITHER LET HER TAKE THEE WITH HER EYE-LIDS._] It is a very general custom in the East to _paint the eye-lids_. I have many Asiatic drawings in which this is expressed. They have a method of _polishing the eyes_ with a preparation of _antimony_, so that they appear with an indescribable lustre; or, as one who mentions the fact from observation, "Their eyes appear to be swimming in bliss....

EYELIDS - Possibly pointing to the Eastern custom of painting the eyes on the outside with _kohl_ so as to give brightness and languishing expression....

EXPOSITION PROVERBS 6:1 The sixth chapter embraces four distinct discourses, each of which is a warning. The subjects treated of are (1) suretyship (Proverbs 6:1); (2) sloth (Proverbs 6:6); (3) malice (Proverbs 6:12); and (4) adultery (Proverbs 6:20 to the end). The continuity of the subject treated of in the preceding chapter appears to be somewhat abruptly interrupted to make way for the insertion of three

LUST NOT AFTER HER BEAUTY IN THINE HEART,.... Do not look upon it with the eye, nor dwell upon it in the thought; the one will lead on to and kindle last in the heart, and the other will cherish it and blow it up into a flame; and lust thus conceived and nourished in the heart is no other than committing adultery, Matthew 5:28; NEITHER LET HER TAKE THEE WITH HER EYELIDS; let her not take thee from instruction with them, so Aben Ezra, from attending to that; or let her not take thy wisdom from thee, so Jarchi; or rather let her not take thee as in a net, with the sparkling of her eyes, with the wanton and amorous glances of them; so the Syriac version, "let her not captivate thee", c. which applied to the antichristian church, may signify the outward pomp and grandeur of it, its pretensions to antiquity, to the apostolic see, to infallibility, miracles, great devotion, c.

CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The surety (Proverbs 6:1)_ 2. The sluggard (Proverbs 6:6) 3. The naughty, good-for-nothing person (Proverbs 6:12) 4. The strange woman (Proverbs 6:20) Proverbs 6:1. These are instructions concerning contracts, in being surety for a neighbor and the danger connected with it. Proverbs 6:6. The sluggard is commanded to go to the ant for a lesson. (See also...

A section totally dissimilar from the rest of this division of Pr. It consists of four short subsections Proverbs 6:1 against suretyship, Proverbs 6:6 against sloth, Proverbs 6:12 against talebearing, Proverbs 6:16 against seven sins. Then the subject of sexual vice is continued from Proverbs 5. Proverbs 6:1 obviously breaks the connexion, and was probably inserted after the compilation of Proverbs 6:1....

Fourteenth Address. Chap. 6. Proverbs 6:20. _The Evil Woman_ The holy memories and sanctions of the family are invoked (Proverbs 6:20) to give weight to another earnest warning against the sin which destroys the purity and saps the foundations of family life (Proverbs 6:24)....

WITH HER EYELIDS— Women in the east used to be particular in painting and beautifying their eyelids; and as their motive was by that means to ensnare and captivate the men, the expression seems to be highly proper. "The eye of a harlot is the snare of her lover," says St. Ambrose. See Philostratus's Epist. γυναικι. Though the words, _a man is brought,_ in the next verse are not in the Hebrew, yet they seem plainly to be understood, and give us a better sense than any of the other versions; which have it, _The price of a whore is scarcely that of a single loaf._...