“ I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. ”
The love of perfumes is here, as in Isaiah 3:24 , a sign of luxurious vice. Cinnamon - The Hebrew word is identical with the English. The spice imported by the Phoenician traders from the furt...
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...
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. I have perfumed any bed with Myrrh - מר mor, "aloes," אהלים ahalim, and "cinnamon," קנמון kinnamon. We have taken our names from the original w...
I have perfumed, &c.— I have sprinkled or bedewed my bed with myrrh, cedar-oil, and juice of cinnamon.
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. I have perfumed my bed. She appeals to every sense. She allures his taste with meats; his eye with the sight of the richly ornamented t...
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...
For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, Passing through the street near her corn...
I have perfumed my bed ,.... As she had made it entertaining to the senses of seeing and feeling, it being showy and gaudy, soft and easy; so to the sense of smelling; and all to provoke lust, and d...
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. Ver. 17. With myrrh, aloes, &c. ] This might have minded the young man that he was going to his grave; for the bodies of the dead were s...
Therefore came I forth to meet thee As not being able to take any pleasure in my feast without thy company; and I have found thee By a happy providence of God complying with my desires, to my gr...
The Foolish Young Man; Enticements of the Adulteress. 6 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, 7...
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A Detailed Description Of The Seduction Of The Naive Young Man By The ‘Strange Woman' ( Proverbs 7:6-23 ). This account divides up into three, what the father observes of the naive young man's act...
CRITICAL NOTES. Proverbs 7:7 . Simple , “inexperienced.” Proverbs 7:8 . Went , “moved leisurely, sauntered.” Proverbs 7:9 . In the black and dark night , literally, “in the apple,” or “pu...
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...
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...
Condemnation of Fornication and Adultery. On account of the terrible devastation wrought by sins of adultery and by every gratification of sexual desires outside of holy wedlock, affecting not onl...
Isaiah 57:7-9 ; Psalms 45:8 ; Song of Solomon 3:6 ; Song of Solomon 4:13 ; Song of Solomon 4:14