The point of the satire is the ingenuity with which the slothful man devises the most improbable alarms. He hears that “there is a lion without,” i. e., in the broad open country; he is afraid of being slain in the very streets of the city.
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Proverbs 22:13
13 The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.