Proverbs 8:3

She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.

She crieth at the gates (Hebrew, at the hand of the gates), at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors. As "the gates" refer to the city; so "the doors" to the private house. Messiah preached alike on the mount, and then in the plain-in the country, where many roads met; then in the city gates, the usual place of mercantile traffic and of judicial proceedings; then in the main street, at every private door (; cf. ; ). Those who will go astray and be lost, do so in the face of the plainest warnings and invitations of love.