“ Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. ”
Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the (a) apple of thy eye. (a) By this diversity of words, he means that nothing should be so dear to us as the word of God, nor that we look on anything...
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...
live: i.e. live for ever, in resurrection and eternal life. See note on Leviticus 18:5 . Illustrations: Adam ( Genesis 3:22 ; Genesis 3:23 ); Lot's wife ( Genesis 19:26 ); Saul ( 1 Chronicles 10:...
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...
Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. As the apple of thine eye - As the pupil of the eye, which is of such essential necessity to sight, and so easily injured.
Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. Keep my commandments, and live - and so thou shalt live ( Proverbs 4:4 ). And my law as the apple of thine eye - lite...
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...
Keep my commandments and live ,.... Not the commandments of the law only, but the commandments of Christ; and even the doctrines of Christ are so called, as faith in him, and love to the saints, 1...
Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. Ver. 2. Keep my commandments, and live. ] "Live," i.e., live happily. I am the Lord that teacheth thee to profit, therefore...
Keep my commandments, and live That is, thou shalt live. It is a promise in the form of a command, as Proverbs 3:25 . And my law as the apple of thine eye With all possible care and diligence, a...
The Word of God Recommended. 1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. 2 Keep my commandments, a...
And live, i.e. thou shalt live. A promise in the form of a command, as Proverbs 3:25 . As the apple of thine eye; with all possible care and diligence, as men guard that part from all dangers,...
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...
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...
1 John 2:3 ; 1 John 2:4 ; 1 John 5:1-3 ; Deuteronomy 32:10 ; Isaiah 55:3 ; John 12:49 ; John 12:50 ; John 14:21 ; John 15:14 ; Leviticus 18:5 ; Proverbs 4:13 ; Psalms 17:8 ; Revelation 2...
Live — Thou shalt live. Eye — With all possible care and diligence.