Proverbs 7:18

Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves. COME, LET US TAKE OUR FILL OF LOVE UNTIL THE MORNING; LET US SOLACE OURSELVES WITH LOVES. The first clause marks the insatiable lust and abundance of the loves; the second, their sweetness. The Hebrew for "love" ( dodiym (H1730)) is distinct from that for "loves" ( 'aahaabiym (H159)). Let us take our fill of (or let us make ourselves drunk with) blandishments; let us exhilarate ourselves with loves....

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 Solomon has set before his eyes in so lively and plain a manner, the danger of even going near them? Then is he as the man who would dance on the edge of a lofty rock, when he has just seen another fall headlong from the same place. The misery of self-ruined sinners began in disregard to God's blessed commands. We ought daily to pray that we may be kept from running into temptation, else we invite the enemies of our souls to spread snares for us. Ever avoid the neighbourhood of vice. Beware of sins which are said to be pleasant sins. They are the more dangerous, because they most easily gain the heart, and close it against repentance. Do nothing till thou hast well considered the end of it....

Verse Proverbs 7:18. _COME, LET US TAKE OUR FILL OF LOVE_] נרוה דדים _nirveh_ _dodim_, "Let us revel in the breasts;" and then it is added, "Let us solace ourselves with loves," נתעלסה באהבים _nithallesah_ _boohabim_; "let us gratify each other with loves, with the utmost delights." This does not half express the original; but I forbear. The speech shows the _brazen face_ of this woman, well translated by the _Vulgate_, "Veni, inebriemur uberibus; et fruamur cupidinis amplexibus." And the _Septuagint_ has expressed the spirit of it: Ελθε, και απολαυσωμεν φιλιας - δευρο, και εγκυλισθωμεν ερωτι. "Veni, et fruamur amicitia - Veni, et colluctemur cupidine." Though varied in the words, all the _versions_ have expressed the same thing. In the old MS. Bible, the speech of this woman is as follows: - I have arrayed with cordis my litil bed, and spred...

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 this chapter and the following a contrast is drawn between the adulteress and Wisdom. PROVERBS 7:1 MY SON, KEEP MY WORDS. The teacher enjoins his pupil, as in Proverbs 2:1, to observe the rules which he gives. Lay up, as a precious treasure (see on Proverbs 2:1 and Proverbs 2:7

COME, LET US TAKE OUR FILL OF LOVE UNTIL THE MORNING,.... Taking him by the hand, and pulling him along, she says, "come"; let us not stand here in the streets, but let us go within, and after supper to bed; and there enjoy ourselves, till "inebriated" with love, as the word w signifies: so the poet x speaks of "ebrios ocellos", "eyes drunk", that is, with love; and so continue till the morning light, the night being the fittest season for those works of darkness: this expresses the insatiableness of her lust; LET US SOLACE OURSELVES WITH LOVES; mutual love, not lawful, but criminal; more properly lusts; denoting the abundance of it, and the pleasure promised in it, which is very short lived, and bitterness in the end. w נרוה "inebriemur", Pagninus, Montanus, Mercerus, Piscator, Gejerus, Michaelis, Schultens. x Catullus de Acme, Ep. 43. c. 11....

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 God, not to multiply wives (Deuteronomy 17:17) his end would not have been spent in the degrading fellowship with the harlots of other nations. The description is very graphic. What the word pictures is as prominent in the great centers of Christendom as it was thousands of years ago in Babylon and Egypt. And so it is still true: _ She hath cast down many wounded;_ Yea, many strong men have been slain by her. Her house is the way to hell, Going down to the chambers of death. But think of Solomon after having received these inspired descriptions and warnings, that he should have been forgetful of them all....

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 commandments and the torah of the sage, that he may be preserved from the adulteress. PROVERBS 7:3 B. _cf._ 2 Corinthians 3:3, and for the opposite thought Jeremiah 17:1. Proverbs 7:4. kinswoman: lit. one well known, familiar friend, only in Ruth 2:1;...

TAKE OUR FILL. drink deep. LOVES. Plural. much love....

TEXT Proverbs 7:13-27 13. So she caught him, and kissed him, And with an impudent face she said unto him: 14. Sacrifices of peace-offerings are with me; This day have I paid my vows. 15. Therefore came I forth to meet thee, Diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee. 16. I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, With striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt. 17. I have perfumed by bed With myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. 18. Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; Let us solace ourselves with loves. 19. For the man is not at home; He is gone a long journey: 20. He hath taken a bag of money with him; He will come home at the full moon. 21. With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield, With th

THE BAD WOMAN A picture drawn from life of the enticing of a young man by a wicked woman....