DISCOURSE 8. ADDRESSED TO ‘MY SON'. AFTER APPEALING TO HIM TO
OBSERVE HIS WORDS SOLOMON VIVIDLY DESCRIBES THE WILES OF AN ADULTERESS
AND WARNS ‘SONS' AGAINST HER (PROVERBS 7:1).
This is the fourth reference to the dangers of the ‘strange woman'.
In Proverbs 2:16 the emphasis was on her betrayal of b... [ Continue Reading ]
AN APPEAL TO ‘MY SON' TO OBSERVE HIS WORDS AND HIS COMMANDMENTS AND
TO TAKE WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING AS HIS CLOSE FEMALE RELATIVES, SO AS
TO BE PROTECTED FROM THE FOREIGN WOMAN (PROVERBS 7:1).
This appeal follows the pattern of earlier appeals. For the
combination of ‘words' and ‘commandments' compa... [ Continue Reading ]
A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE SEDUCTION OF THE NAIVE YOUNG MAN BY THE
‘STRANGE WOMAN' (PROVERBS 7:6).
This account divides up into three, what the father observes of the
naive young man's actions (Proverbs 7:6), what the strange woman says
to the naive young man (Proverbs 7:14), and the resulting r... [ Continue Reading ]
A FINAL APPEAL ADDRESSED TO ‘SONS' NOT TO FOLLOW HER BECAUSE HER WAY
IS THE WAY OF DEATH (PROVERBS 7:24).
This final appeal is addressed, not to ‘my son' but to ‘sons'. He
may well be thinking, not only of the young man, but of those who will
follow in later generations. And he calls on them not to... [ Continue Reading ]