And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
Ver. 20. And why wilt thou, my son?] The premises considered, there is no reason for it, but all against it. Nothing is more irrational than irreligion, and yet nothing more usual with the devil than to persuade his vassals that there is some sense in sinning, and that they have reason to be mad. And, truly, though there were no devil, yet our corrupt nature would act Satan's part against itself; it would have a supply of wickedness - as a serpent hath of poison - from itself. It hath a spring within to feed it. Nitimur in vetitum semper, petimusque negata. Nothing would serve the rich man's turn but the poor man's lamb. If Ahab may not have Naboth's vineyard, he hath nothing. The more God forbids any sin, the more we bid for it. Rom 7:8 ‘Nay, but we will have a king,' said they, when they had nothing else to say why they would.