Her house [is] the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
Ver. 27. Her house is the way to Hell.] The shortest cut to utter destruction. This, if well believed, would make the young man stop or step back, as if he had trod upon a serpent.
“ Sed vivunt homines tanquam mors nulla sequatur:
Aut velut infernus fabula vana foret. ”
Going down to the chambers of death. ] Both temporal and eternal. Lo, those hosts that welcome men into their inn with smiling countenance will cut their throats in their beds. The syrens are said to live in green meadows, and to have by them ever a heap of dead men's bones. a
a Natal. Comes.