Proverbs 6:1
The surety appears to have taken the creditor's hand in the presence of witnesses: cp. 2 Kings 10:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
The surety appears to have taken the creditor's hand in the presence of witnesses: cp. 2 Kings 10:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
DISSUASIVES FROM HURTFUL THINGS Proverbs 6:1 are inserted here from some other collection, and contain warnings against suretyships (1-5), sloth (6-11), falseness (12-15), evils which the Lordhates (16-19). At Proverbs 6:20 the thread of Proverbs 5 is resumed.... [ Continue Reading ]
Read, 'Seeing thou art come into the hand of thy neighbour, go, bestir thyself, and beset thy neighbour. Make haste to get out of his power' (Matthew 5:25).... [ Continue Reading ]
Ants really have an elaborately organised society: in some species there is a king and queen; others keep slaves.... [ Continue Reading ]
ONE THAT TRAVELLETH] RV 'a robber.' The roads were insecure, as English ones were in the times when 'highwayman' meant 'robber.'... [ Continue Reading ]
Cp. the Arab's prayer: 'O God, pardon us the culpable winking of the eyes.' Here the winking, etc., are signals to confederates.... [ Continue Reading ]
A PROUD LOOK] lit. 'haughty eyes' (RV): see our word 'supercilious,' from _supercilium=_ the eyebrow.... [ Continue Reading ]
The beauty of an Eastern woman's eyes is enhanced by being painted round with kohl in the shape of an almond.... [ Continue Reading ]
A harlot brings him down to a loaf of bread, to extreme poverty; an adulteress will involve his in utter ruin.... [ Continue Reading ]
The OT. never treats theft leniently. Read, 'Do not men despise,' etc. Yes! and much more an adulterer.... [ Continue Reading ]
In divers cases twofold, fourfold, fivefold restitution was prescribed (Exodus 22, etc.): sevenfold means very great (Genesis 4:15).... [ Continue Reading ]