“ Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. ”
The besetting sin of all times and countries, the one great proof of the inherent corruption of man’s nature. Pleasures are attractive because they are forbidden (compare Romans 7:7 ).
Proverbs 9. The Invitations of Wisdom and Folly Contrasted. This section closes with a couple of graphic pictures of Wisdom and Folly personified, each bidding for the attention of the passers-by w...
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. Stolen waters are sweet - I suppose this to be a proverbial mode of expression, importing that illicit pleasures are sweeter than tho...
Stolen waters are sweet— A proverbial expression for illicit pleasures; the Greeks and Latins make use of the same phrase. See chap. Proverbs 5:15 and Calmet. One of the profitable lessons to be...
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. Stolen waters are sweet, and bread (eaten) in secret is pleasant - (cf. the answer to her lure, Proverbs 9:18 ; Proverbs 20:1...
The Rivals Folly and Wisdom invite guests to their respective houses. The consequences of accepting either of the two invitations are described. We are reminded of the Greek parable, 'The choice o...
Stolen waters are sweet. — See above, on Proverbs 5:15 . Bread eaten in secret. — The same figure is used in Proverbs 30:20 .
CHAPTER 10 TWO VOICES IN THE HIGH PLACES OF THE CITY Proverbs 9:1-18 , Proverbs 20:14 with Proberbs 3, and Proverbs 20:16 with Proverbs 4:1-27 AFTER the lengthened contrast between the vi...
Two Contrasted Invitations Proverbs 9:1-18 There is an age-long competition between Wisdom and Folly, Virtue and Vice. The palace of Wisdom is very attractive-well built and well furnished. It...
The last address is a contrast between wisdom and folly. Each is personified as a woman calling to youth. Wisdom has builded her house, and spread her feast in the high places of the city. She calls...
A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing. For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city, To call passengers who go right on their ways: Wh...
Stolen waters are sweet ,.... Wells and fountains of waters in those hot countries were very valuable, and were the property of particular persons; about which there were sometimes great strife and...
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread [eaten] in secret is pleasant. Ver. 17. Stolen waters are sweet. ] Forbidden pleasures are most pleasing to sensualists, who count no mirth but madness; no pleas...
Whoso is simple Which title is not given to them by her; for such a reproach would not have allured them, but driven them away; but by Solomon, who represents the matter of her invitation in his ow...
The Invitation of Folly. 13 A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing. 14 For she sitteth...
Stolen waters; by which he understandeth, either, 1. Idolatry, or other wickednesses, which in Solomon's time before his fall were publicly forbidden and punished, but privately practised; or rat...
The Appeal Of Woman Folly To The Naive ( Proverbs 9:13-18 ). There is no suggestion that Woman Folly's house is opulent or well-provisioned. And indeed she herself is described as ‘turbulent' and...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 9:13 . A foolish woman , rather, “the woman of folly,” an exact opposition of the personified wisdom of the former part of the chapter. Clamorous , “violently excited”...
Proverbs 9:1 . Wisdom hath builded her house. This chapter opens with a sublime allegory. We see the princess, the mother of angels and men, enthroned in her temple, “the church which is the pilla...
But he knoweth not that the dead are there. The fatal banquet Here two texts. Preach concerning a couple of preachers; one by usurpation, the other by assignation: the world’s chaplain, and the...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 9:1-20 15. Fifteenth admonitory discourse, containing in a parabolic form an invitation of Wisdom ( Proverbs 9:1-20 ), and that of her rival Folly ( Proverbs 9:13-20 )...
The Banquet of Folly
2 Kings 5:24-27 ; Ephesians 5:12 ; Genesis 3:6 ; James 1:14 ; James 1:15 ; Proverbs 20:17 ; Proverbs 23:31 ; Proverbs 23:32 ; Proverbs 30:20 ; Proverbs 7:18-20 ; Romans 7:8
Sweet — From the difficulty of obtaining them; and because the very prohibition renders them more grateful to corrupt nature.