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<p id="Chapter5" align="center">Commentary by A. R. FAUSSET<br>CHAPTER 5
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<p id="Pr5_1"><a onclick="return mV('Pro',5,'1-23');">Pro 5:1-23</a>. A warning against the seductive arts of wicked women, enforced by considering the advantages of chastity, and the miserable end of the wicked.
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<p><b>1.</b> This connection of <i>wisdom</i> and <i>understanding</i> is frequent (<a onclick="return mV('Pro',2,2);">Pro 2:2</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Pro',3,7);">3:7</a>); the first denotes the use of wise means for wise ends; the other, the exercise of a proper discrimination in their discovery.
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<p id="Pr5_2"><b>2. regard</b>—or, "observe."
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<br><br><b>keep</b>—preserve constantly.
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<p id="Pr5_3"><b>3.</b> (Compare <a onclick="return mV('Pro',2,16);">Pro 2:16</a>). Her enticing promises are deceitful.
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<p id="Pr5_4"><b>4. her end</b>—literally, "her future," in sense of reward, what follows (compare <a onclick="return mV('Psa',37,37);">Psa 37:37</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',73,17);">73:17</a>). Its nature is evinced by the use of figures, opposite those of <a onclick="return mV('Pro',5,3);">Pro 5:3</a>. The physical and moral suffering of the deluded profligate are notoriously terrible.
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<p id="Pr5_5"><b>5. feet..., steps</b>—that is, course of life ends in death.
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<p id="Pr5_6"><b>6. her ways...know</b>—Some prefer, "that she may not ponder the path of life," etc.; 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."
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<p id="Pr5_8"><b>8, 9.</b> Avoid the slightest temptation.
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<p id="Pr5_9"><b>9. thine honour</b>—in whatever consisting, strength (<a onclick="return mV('Pro',3,13);">Pro 3:13</a>) or wealth.
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<br><br><b>thy years</b>—by cutting them off in dissipation.
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<br><br><b>unto the cruel</b>—for such the sensual are apt to become.
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<p id="Pr5_10"><b>10. wealth</b>—literally, "strength," or the result of it.
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<br><br><b>labours</b>—the fruit of thy painful exertions (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',127,2);">Psa 127:2</a>). There may be a reference to slavery, a commuted punishment for death due the adulterer (<a onclick="return mV('Deu',22,22);">Deu 22:22</a>).
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<p id="Pr5_11"><b>11. at the last</b>—the end, or reward (compare <a onclick="return mV('Pro',5,4);">Pro 5:4</a>).
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<br><br><b>mourn</b>—roar in pain.
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<br><br><b>flesh and...body</b>—the whole person under incurable disease.
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<p id="Pr5_12"><b>12-14.</b> The ruined sinner vainly laments his neglect of warning and his sad fate in being brought to public disgrace.
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<p id="Pr5_14"><b>14. evil</b>—for affliction, as in <a onclick="return mV('Gen',19,20);">Gen 19:20</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Gen',49,15);">49:15</a>.
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<p id="Pr5_15"><b>15-20.</b> By figures, in which <i>well, cistern,</i> and <i>fountain</i> (<a onclick="return mV('Pro',5,15,18);">Pro 5:15, 18</a>) represent the wife, and <i>rivers of waters</i> (<a onclick="return mV('Pro',5,16);">Pro 5:16</a>) the children, men are exhorted to constancy and satisfaction in lawful conjugal enjoyments. In <a onclick="return mV('Pro',5,16);">Pro 5:16</a>, <i>fountains</i> (in the plural) rather denote the produce or waters of a spring, literally, "what is from a spring," and corresponds with "rivers of waters."
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<p id="Pr5_17"><b>17. only thine own</b>—harlots' children have no known father.
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<p id="Pr5_18"><b>18. wife...youth</b>—married in youth.
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<p id="Pr5_19"><b>19. loving...roe</b>—other figures for a wife from the well-known beauty of these animals.
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<br><br><b>breasts</b>—(Compare <a onclick="return mV('Sgs',1,13);">Sgs 1:13</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Eze',23,3,8);">Eze 23:3, 8</a>).
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<br><br><b>ravished</b>—literally, "intoxicated," that is, fully satisfied.
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<p id="Pr5_21"><b>21.</b> The reason, God's eye is on you,
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<p id="Pr5_22"><b>22, 23.</b> and He will cause sin to bring its punishment.
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<p id="Pr5_23"><b>23. without instruction</b>—literally, "in want of instruction," having refused it (compare <a onclick="return mV('Job',13,18);">Job 13:18</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Hbr',11,24);">Hbr 11:24</a>).
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<br><br><b>go astray</b>—literally, "be drunken." The word "ravished" (<a onclick="return mV('Pro',5,19);">Pro 5:19</a>) here denotes fulness of punishment.
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