Proverbs 7:1 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

My son, keep my words— Chastity is a virtue of so much consequence, and impurity such a bane to youth, that the wise man thought he could not too often make mention of the danger of the one, to move men carefully to preserve the other; therefore he repeats with renewed importunities what he had before urged; and, the better to secure those who desire to be free from the snare of lewdness, he represents, together with the simpleness of young men, the cunning and crafty desires of an impudent adulteress; which is most admirably and elegantly set forth from Proverbs 7:6-21 as the fatal consequences of such an attachment are in the subsequent verses: and, indeed, this picture which the wise man gives us, deserves to be studied with great attention; as, properly noted, it cannot fail to have its due effect, and to give a just abhorrence of those infamous Syrens who only allure to betray and ruin. See Patrick.