“ My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. ”
The harlot adulteress of an Eastern city is contrasted with the true feminine ideal of the Wisdom who is to be the “sister” and “kinswoman” Proverbs 7:4 of the young man as he goes on his way thr...
The longest and most elaborate description of the adulteress, the fate of her victim, and the value of wisdom as a safeguard. Proverbs 7:1-5 . General advice to the young man to observe the comm...
My son. See note on Proverbs 1:8 . keep . watch. words . sayings. Hebrew. imrah. App-73.
DISCOURSE: 768 LOVE TO THE HOLY SCRIPTURES INCULCATED Proverbs 7:1-4 . My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thi...
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. My son, keep my words - See Proverbs 2:1 .
My son, keep my words— Chastity is a virtue of so much consequence, and impurity such a bane to youth, that the wise man thought he could not too often make mention of the danger of the one, to mov...
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. Proverbs 7:1-27 .-Prefatory exhortation to retaining firmly wisdom as the safeguard against the strange woman ( Proverbs 7:1-5 )....
The Bad Woman A picture drawn from life of the enticing of a young man by a wicked woman.
CHAPTER 8 REALISM IN MORAL TEACHING "I looked forth through my lattice; and I beheld." Proverbs 7:6 THE three Chapter s which close the introduction of our book (7-9) present a lively and pict...
This is a second parental exhortation, and consists of a warning against the allurements of the strange woman. A graphic picture of the seduction of a youth void of understanding is given. The woman...
CONTENTS. In this Chapter under the representation of an harlot, the deception that is practised upon our fallen nature is strikingly set forth, and the departure from God in sin and uncleanness is...
My son, keep my words ,.... Doctrines and instructions; which, as a father to a son, or a master to his scholars, he had delivered; these he would have him observe and attend to; and lay up my com...
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. Ver. 1. My son, keep my words. ] Aristotle hath observed, and daily experience makes it good, that man shows his weakness no way more t...
The Word of God Recommended. 1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. 2 Keep my commandments, a...
PROVERBS CHAPTER 7 Solomon again persuadeth to keep his laws, and delight in wisdom, Proverbs 7:1-5 . A young man void of understanding is insnared by a harlot, Proverbs 7:6-9 . A description...
An Appeal To ‘My Son' To Observe His Words And His Commandments And To Take Wisdom And Understanding As His Close Female Relatives, So As To Be Protected From The Foreign Woman ( Proverbs 7:1-5 )....
CRITICAL NOTES. Proverbs 7:2 . Apple of the eye , the “pupil,” literally the “little man” of the eye, referring to the reflected image of a man seen in that organ. Proverbs 7:3 . Bind them “...
Proverbs 7:1 . Keep my words lay up my commandments. These terms being of constant occurrence in the didactic scriptures, will be found explained in the beginning of the hundred and nineteenth psa...
My son keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. Parental precepts “Lay up.” Hebrew, “hide.” A metaphor from treasure not left open in the house, but looked up in chests unseen, lest...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 7:1-20 13. Thirteenth admonitory discourse, containing a warning against adultery, treated under a different aspect from previous exhortations, and strengthened by an...
My son, keep my words, observing his sayings, and lay up my commandments with thee, like a precious treasure, to be used with discretion.
Deuteronomy 11:28 ; Job 22:22 ; John 14:23 ; John 15:20 ; Luke 11:28 ; Luke 8:15 ; Proverbs 1:8 ; Proverbs 10:14 ; Proverbs 2:1-7 ; Proverbs 3:1 ; Revelation 1:3 ; Revelation 22:9