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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown · 1871

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown · 1871

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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871). CCEL expanded electronic edition states it is in the public domain.

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Proverbs Chapter 5 1 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Pr 5:1-23.

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Pr 5:1-23.

A warning against the seductive arts of wicked women, enforced by considering the advantages of chastity, and the miserable end of the wicked.

1. This connection of wisdom and understanding is frequent

(Pr 2:2; 3:7);

the first denotes the use of wise means for wise ends; the other, the exercise of a proper discrimination in their discovery.

Proverbs Chapter 5 2 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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2. regard--or, "observe."

keep--preserve constantly.

Proverbs Chapter 5 3 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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3. (Compare

Pr 2:16).

Her enticing promises are deceitful.

Proverbs Chapter 5 4 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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4. her end--literally, "her future," in sense of reward, what follows (compare

Ps 37:37; 73:17).

Its nature is evinced by the use of figures, opposite those of

Pr 5:3.

The physical and moral suffering of the deluded profligate are notoriously terrible.

Proverbs Chapter 5 5 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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5. feet . . . , steps--that is, course of life ends in death.

Proverbs Chapter 5 6 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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6. her ways . . . know--Some prefer, "that she may not ponder the path of life," &c.; but perhaps a better sense is, "her ways are varied, so as to prevent your knowledge of her true character, and so of true happiness."

Proverbs Chapter 5 8 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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8, 9. Avoid the slightest temptation.

Proverbs Chapter 5 9 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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9. thine honour--in whatever consisting, strength

(Pr 3:13)

or wealth.

thy years--by cutting them off in dissipation.

unto the cruel--for such the sensual are apt to become.