“ But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword. ”
Wormwood - In Eastern medicine this herb, the absinthium of Greek and Latin botanists, was looked upon as poisonous rather than medicinal. Compare Revelation 8:11 .
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...
But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword. Bitter as wormwood - כלענה Kelanah, like the detestable herb wormwood, or something analogous to it: something as excessive in its bitter...
But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword. But her end is bitter as wormwood - ( Ecclesiastes 7:26 ). The flesh promises every delight, but it leaves bitter dregs (Mercer)....
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...
Bitter as wormwood. — The absinthium of Revelation 8:11 , where, apparently, it is considered as a poison. So God’s message to St. John ( Revelation 10:10 ) was in his mouth sweet as honey (comp...
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...
But her end is bitter as wormwood ,.... Which is opposed to the honeycomb her lips are said to drop; so that, as Juvenal says g, "plus aloes quam mellis habet": the end which she brings persons to,...
But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword. Ver. 4. But her end is bitter as wormwood. ] The pleasure passeth, the sting remaineth; for in the froth of this filthy pleasure is br...
For the lips of a strange woman , &c. It concerns thee to get and to use discretion, that thou mayest be able to resist those manifold temptations to which thou art exposed; drop as a honeycomb...
Parental Instructions; Cautions against Sensuality. 1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understa...
Her design, and the effect of that lewdness to which she enticeth men, is the sinner's destruction.
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
Ecclesiastes 7:26 ; Hebrews 12:15 ; Hebrews 12:16 ; Hebrews 4:12 ; Judges 16:15-21 ; Judges 16:4-6 ; Proverbs 23:27 ; Proverbs 23:28 ; Proverbs 6:24-35 ; Proverbs 7:22 ; Proverbs 7:23 ; P...
But — The effect of that to which she entices men, is destruction.