“ For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey: ”
The reference to the husband is probably a blind. The use of the word “goodman” is due to the wish of the English translators to give a colloquial character to this part of their Version. The Hebre...
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...
goodman . master of the house. Compare Matthew 24:43 . Luke 12:39 .
For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey: For the good man - Literally, "For the man is not in his house."
For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey: For the goodman (is) not at home, he is gone a long journey. She thus removes any fear that the youth may feel. Instead of saying, '...
The Bad Woman A picture drawn from life of the enticing of a young man by a wicked woman.
The goodman. — Literally, the man; she does not even call him “my husband.” At the day appointed. — Rather, at the full moon, a fortnight later, as now it would seem to have been new moon, w...
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...
For the good man [is] not at home ,.... Or, "for the man is not in his house" y. She does not say, "my man", or "my husband"; though the Septuagint. Syriac, and Arabic versions so render it; lest th...
For the goodman [is] not at home, he is gone a long journey: Ver. 19. For the goodman is not at home. ] Heb., The man, - not my man, or my husband, &c. The very mention (how much more th...
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...
The goodman; whom she doth not call her husband, lest the mention of that name should awaken his conscience or discretion.
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...
Luke 12:39 ; Luke 12:45 ; Luke 12:46 ; Mark 13:34-36 ; Matthew 20:11 ; Matthew 24:43 ; Matthew 24:48