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21 She beguiled him by the fulness of her talking,
By the smoothness of her lips she drew him away.
Here is a climax. First she brought him to yield, overcoming the resistance of his mind to the last point (cf. 1 Kings 11:3); then drove him, or, as we say, hurried him wholly away, viz., from the right path or conduct (cf. Deuteronomy 13:6, Deuteronomy 13:11). With הטּתּוּ (= הטּתהוּ ) as the chief factum, the past imperf. is interchanged, 21b. Regarding לקח , see above, p. 56. Here is the rhetoric of sin (Zöckler); and perhaps the לקח of 20a has suggested this antiphrastic לקח to the author (Hitzig), as חלק (the inverted לקח , formed like שׁפל , which is the abstr. of שׁפל as that is of חלק ) and תּדּיחנּוּ are reciprocally conditioned, for the idea of the slippery (Psalms 73:18) connects itself with חלק .
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After this digression the poet returns to the subject, and further describes the event as observed by himself.
And she laid hold on him and kissed him;
Put on a bold brow and said to him.
The verb נשׁק is here, after its primary signification, connected with the dat.: osculum fixit ei . Thus also Genesis 27:26 is construed, and the Dagesh in לּו is, as there, Dag. forte conj., after the law for which the national grammarians have coined the technical name אתי מרחיק ( veniens e longinquo, “coming out of the distance,” i.e., the attraction of a word following by one accented on the penult.). The penult.-accenting of נשׁקה is the consequence of the retrogression of the accent ( נסוג אחור ), which, here where the word from the first had the penult, only with Metheg, and thus with a half a tone, brings with it the dageshing of the לו following, as the original penultima-accenting of והחזיקה does of the בו which follows it, for the reading בּו by Löwenstein is contrary to the laws of punctuation of the Textus receptus under consideration here.
(Note: Vid., Baer's Torath Emeth, p. 29f., and Psalmen-Commentar under Psalms 52:5.)
As בו and לו have received the doubling Dagesh, so on the other hand, according to Ewald, §193b, it has disappeared from העזה (written with Raphe according to Kimchi, Michlol 145a). And as נשׁקה has the tone thrown back, so the proper pausal ותּאמר is accented on the ult., but without attracting the לו following by dageshing, which is the case only when the first of the two words terminates in the sound of ā ( āh ). העז פניו is said of one who shows firmness of hardness of countenance (Arab. slabt alwajh ), i.e., one who shows shamelessness, or, as we say, an iron forehead (Fl.).
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