“ For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, ”
Casement - The latticed opening of an Eastern house, overlooking the street (compare Judges 5:28 ).
(b) For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, (b) Solomon uses this parable to declare their folly, who allow themselves to be abused by harlots.
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...
For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, I looked through my casement - The casement is a small aperture in a large window, or a window opening on hinges. Here it means the lattice...
I looked through my casement— Through the lattice. In Palestine they had no glass to their windows; they closed them with lattices or curtains.
For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, For at the window of my house I looked through my casement - "the lattice" ( Judges 5:28 ), whence one could see what was going on...
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...
SIMPLETONS ATTRACT SEDUCERS ‘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.’ Proverbs...
For at the window of my house ,.... This is either an historical account of a matter of fact known to Solomon, or a parable made by him, setting forth the cunning artifices of an harlot, the folly a...
For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, Ver. 6. I looked through my casement. ] Little did this young fool think whose eye was upon him, less did he heed the all-seeing eye of...
For I looked through my casement Hebrew, בעד אשׁנבי, per fenestellam meam, my little window , or lattice , rather. For “in Palestine they had no glass to their windows: they closed them with latt...
The Foolish Young Man; Enticements of the Adulteress. 6 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, 7...
This is either an historical relation, or rather a parabolical representation of that which frequently happened.
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 7:6 From Solomon's observation we learn: I. The special perils of great cities. (1) The vastness and multitudinousness of many of our modern cities provide a secrecy which is congenial t...
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...
2 Samuel 6:16 ; Genesis 26:8