And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, [so] that his soul was vexed unto death;
Ver. 16. When she pressed him daily with her words.] Coarctaret, pene cogeret. She gave him no rest or respite, Ut anima eius tantum non enecaretur, so that he was even weary of his life through her importunity, to the which at length he yielded: as afterwards Alexander the Great burned the fair city Persepolis, at the motion of a strumpet, upon whom he impotently doated.