“ Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. ”
Wedded love streams forth in blessing on all around, on children and on neighbors and ill the streets, precisely because the wife’s true love is given to the husband only.
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...
Let thy fountains. Septuagint reads "Let not thy fountain", &c. This must be the sense from the context. The Revised Version obtains it by. question, "Should thy fountain... ?". fountains. P...
Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad - Let thy children lawfully begotten be numerous.
Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, (and) rivers of waters in the streets - i:e., by being faithful to thine own...
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...
(15-20) Drink waters out of thine own cistern ... — In these verses Solomon urges his disciples to follow after purity in the married life; he pictures in vivid terms the delights which it affords a...
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...
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...
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. Let them be only thine own, and not strang...
Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad ,.... Or "shall abound", as the Targum; that is, streams of water from fountains; which Aben Ezra interprets of a multitude of children, namely, that are lawful...
Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, [and] rivers of waters in the streets. Ver. 16. Let thy fountains be dispersed. ] "Thy fountains," that is, thy children. Let thine end in marrying be, tha...
Let thy fountains Rather, thy streams , as Dr. Waterland renders the word, that is, thy children, proceeding from thy wife, called thy fountain, Proverbs 5:18 , and from thyself; be dispersed...
Conjugal Fidelity Enjoined. 15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. 16 Le...
Thy fountains; thy children proceeding from thy wife, called thy fountain , Proverbs 5:18 , and from thyself, as the Israelites are said to come from the fountain of Israel, Deuteronomy 33:28...
Solomon Calls On His Son To Be Faithful To His True Wife, And To Obtain His Sexual Enjoyments From Her ( Proverbs 5:15-20 ). In contrast Solomon now brings home to ‘his son' ( Proverbs 5:20 ) 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...
Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad. The children of marriage Streams of children. Unlawful intercourse is often barren. I. Children of lawful marriage are like rivers. 1. In plenty. Go...
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...
Chastity Contrasted with Unchastity
Deuteronomy 33:28 ; Genesis 24:60 ; Isaiah 48:21 ; Judges 12:9 ; Psalms 127:3 ; Psalms 128:3 ; Psalms 68:26
Fountains — Thy children proceeding from thy wife and from thyself. Fountains are here put for rivers flowing from them. Dispersed — They shall in due time appear abroad to thy comfort, and for the...