Proverbs 7 - Introduction

A.M. 3004. B.C. 1000.

Chastity is a virtue of so much consequence, and impurity such a bane to youth, that the wise man thought he could not too often make mention of the danger of the one, to move men carefully to preserve the other. Therefore he repeats, with renewed importunities, what he had before urged; and, after an exhortation to cleave to wisdom, as a preservative from such sins, Proverbs 7:1, he represents, together with the simpleness of young men, the cunning and crafty desires of an impudent adulteress; which is most admirably and elegantly set forth, Proverbs 7:6; as the fatal consequences of such an attachment are laid open in the subsequent verses of the chapter.