“ I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. ”
The conscience-stricken sinner had been “almost” given up to every form of evil in the sight of the whole assembly of fellow-townsmen; “almost,” therefore, condemned to the death which that assembl...
I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and (g) assembly. (g) Although I was faithfully instructed in the truth, yet I almost fell to utter shame and destruction nonetheless, by go...
Proverbs 5:1-9 ; Proverbs 5:10-19 ; Proverbs 5:20-23 . Three hortatory discourses exactly similar to those in Proverbs 5:2 and Proverbs 5:3 . The subject is the praise of Wisdom, and the desc...
I was almost in all evil. The Beth Essentiae denotes "in", in the sense of "as". I soon became as an evil man, &c. See App-75. almost . in. little while. Hebrew. kim'at. Occurs eighteen t...
I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. I was almost in all evil - This vice, like a whirlpool, sweeps all others into its vortex. In the midst of the congregation an...
I was almost in all evil— I am plunged into almost all evils in the midst of the assembly of my people. Calmet. Houbigant renders it, I am well nigh become the most miserable of all those amongs...
I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. I was almost in all evil-in the midst of the congregation and assembly. There was scarcely any sin that I did not engag...
Unholy Passion. Hallowed Love A dissuasive from immorality addressed exclusively to men. The two leading thoughts are (1) the disastrous consequences of adultery; loss of honour, property, life, o...
I was almost in all evil ... — Rather, I had almost fallen into every sin: I was so infatuated that I might have committed any sin, and that openly before all. Or, I might have been visited with...
CHAPTER 6 THE WAYS AND ISSUES OF SIN "His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin. He shall die for lack of instruction; And in the greatness of his...
Quicksands! Keep Off! Proverbs 5:1-14 It is a matter for great thankfulness that the Bible, which is God's book rather than man's, deals so strongly and wisely with one great evil, which has ma...
This is a parental exhortation against impurity. It is expressed in words of great delicacy and beauty, but it is none the less urgent and searching. It recognizes one of the most subtle and natural...
Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth. Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy...
I was almost in all evil ,.... Scarce a sin but he was guilty of; contempt of private and public instructions, the instructions of parents and ministers of the Gospel, and following lewd women, comm...
I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. Ver. 14. I was almost in all evil. ] Abraham Ben Ezra reads it in the future tense, Brevi ero in omni malo, I shall shortl...
Come not nigh the door of her house Lest thine eyes affect thy heart, and her allurements prevail over thee. Lest thou give thine honour Thy dignity and reputation, the strength and vigour of thy...
Parental Instructions; Cautions against Sensuality. 1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understa...
I was almost in all evil. Oh what a miserable man am I! There is scarce any misery, in respect of estate, or body, or soul, into which I am not already plunged. The words also are and may well be r...
The Need To Listen To Solomon's Wisdom And Not To Be Enticed By The Words Of The Strange Woman Which Lead To Death And Slavery ( Proverbs 5:1-14 ). The constant reference to the need to avoid the...
ILLUSTRATION OF Proverbs 5:19 Here we have started up, and sent leaping over the plain, another of Solomon’s favourites. What elegant creatures those gazelles are, and how gracefully they bound....
Proverbs 5:3 . The lips of a strange woman drop as a honey-comb. She employs all her arts for bread, for drunkenness, for crime. How wretched, how bitter is the life of a ruined and abandoned woma...
My son, attend unto my wisdom. Caution against sexual sins The scope of the passage is a warning against seventh-commandment sins, which youth is so prone to, the temptations to which are so vi...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 5:1-20 8. Eighth admonitory discourse. Warning against adultery, and commendation of marriage. The teacher, in this discourse, recurs to a subject which he has glanced...
Warning against Wantonness
1 Corinthians 10:6-8 ; 2 Peter 2:10-18 ; Hosea 4:11-14 ; Jude 1:7-13 ; Numbers 25:1-6 ; Proverbs 13:20
A moment — In how little a time am I now come into remediless misery! Assembly — And that in the congregation of Israel, where I was taught better things.