“ Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. ”
Let them be only (i) thine own, and not strangers' with thee. (i) Distribute them not to the wicked and infidels, but reserve them for yourself, your family and them who are of the household of fait...
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 them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. Let them be only thine own - The off-spring of a legitimate connection; a bastard brood, however numerous, is no credit to any man.
Let them be only thine own— Possess them alone: "Love only your wife, and give not to her any occasion, by your irregularity, to charge you with infidelity; guard her in such a manner, that she m...
Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. Let thy children know thee alone as their parent, and do thou know them as...
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 them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. Or "they shall be thine own" u, as the Targum; meaning not the cistern, the well, or the wife, but the fountains and rivers, or the childre...
Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. Ver. 17. Let them be only thine own. ] Sint, vel erunt; Let them be, or they shall be. It is both an exhortation and a promise; q.d....
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...
Hereby thou mayst be secured, that thou dost not father and leave thine estate to other men's children; whereas the parents of harlots children are common or uncertain.
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 them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee. Strangers with thee Strangers with thee in life! Those united in Christ are those only who are united in truth. Strangers with thee in...
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
1 Kings 11:1 ; Genesis 34:27 ; Proverbs 5:10 ; Proverbs 5:20 ; Proverbs 5:3