Proverbs 7:14 [I have] peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.
Ver. 14. I have peace offerings.] Sacris abutitur, ut sceleratis mos est; a she pretends religion to her filthy practices. So did those wicked women that lay with Eli's sons at the door of the tabernacle. 1Sa 2:22 So did King Edward IV's holy whore, as he used to call her, b that came to him out of a nunnery when he used to call for her. And such were those kedesheth, or common whores, so called in Hebrew, because such abomination was committed under a pretext of religion. Gen 38:21 Deu 23:17 But what an odd thing was that of David, that would not lie with Bathsheba till purified! Doth he make conscience of ceremonial, and none of moral purity?
This day have I paid my vows.] A votary then she was, by all means, and so more than ordinarily religious. So was Doeg; why else was he detained "before the Lord?" 1Sa 21:7 A Doeg may set his foot as far into God's sanctuary as a David. That many Popish votaries are no better than this housewife in the text, see the "Lisbon Nunnery," &c., besides those thousands of infants' skulls found in the fish pools by Gregory the Great.
a Mercer.
b Speed.