{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/jfb/pro007.htm","path":"bib/cmt/jfb/pro007.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/jfb/pro007.htm","text":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]\nSimilar calls (Pro 3:1-3; Pro 4:10, &c.).\napple . . . eye--pupil of eye, a custody (Pro 4:23) of special value.\nBind . . . fingers--as inscriptions on rings.\nThe design of the teaching (compare Pro 2:16; Pro 6:24).\nFor--or, \"Since,\" introducing an example to illustrate the warning, which, whether a narrative or a parable, is equally pertinent.\nwindow--or, \"opening\"\nlooked--literally, \"watched earnestly\" (Jdg 5:28).\ncasement--or, \"lattice.\"\nsimple--as in Pro 1:4.\nvoid of, &c.--(Compare Pro 6:32).\nher corner--where she was usually found.\nwent . . . house--implying, perhaps, confidence in himself by his manner, as denoted in the word\nwent--literally, \"tread pompously.\"\nThe time, twilight, ending in darkness.\nblack . . . night--literally, \"pupil,\" or, \"eye,\" that is, middle of night.\nattire--that of harlots was sometimes peculiar.\nsubtile--or, \"wary,\" \"cunning.\"\nloud--or, \"noisy,\" \"bustling.\"\nstubborn--not submissive.\nwithout . . . streets, . . . corner--(Compare Ti1 5:13; Tit 2:5).\nThe preparations for a feast do not necessarily imply peculiar religious professions. The offerer retained part of the victim for a feast (Lev 3:9, &c.). This feast she professes was prepared for him whom she boldly addresses as one sought specially to partake of it.\nmy bed--or, \"couch,\" adorned in the costliest manner.\nbed--a place for sleeping.\nThere is no fear of discovery.\nthe day appointed--perhaps, literally, \"a full moon,\" that is, a fortnight's time (compare Pro 7:19).\ncaused . . . yield--or, \"inclines.\"\nflattering--(Compare Pro 5:3).\nforced him--by persuasion overcoming his scruples.\nstraightway--quickly, either as ignorant of danger, or incapable of resistance.\nTill--He is now caught (Pro 6:26).\nThe inferential admonition is followed (Pro 7:26-27), by a more general allegation of the evils of this vice.\nEven the mightiest fail to resist her deathly allurements.","title":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments: Proverbs: Proverbs Chapter 7","type":"page"}