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Verse Proverbs 5:14. _I WAS ALMOST IN ALL EVIL_] This vice, like a
whirlpool, sweeps all others into its vortex.
_IN THE MIDST OF THE CONGREGATION AND ASSEMBLY._] _In the mydel of_
_the Curche and of...
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The conscience-stricken sinner had been “almost” given up to every
form of evil in the sight of the whole assembly of fellow-townsmen;
“almost,” therefore, condemned to the death which that assembly
m...
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CHAPTER 5
_ 1. Shun the strange woman and sinful passion (Proverbs 5:1)_
2. The life of chastity (Proverbs 5:15)
Proverbs 5:1. It is a warning against literal fornication and the
accompanying spiri...
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PROVERBS 5:1; PROVERBS 5:10; PROVERBS 5:20. Three hortatory discourses
exactly similar to those in Proverbs 5:2 and Proverbs 5:3. The subject
is the praise of Wisdom, and the description of the blessi...
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I WAS ALMOST IN ALL EVIL. The _Beth Essentiae_ denotes "in", in the
sense of "as". I soon became as an evil man, &c. See App-75.
ALMOST. in. little while. Hebrew. _kim'at._ Occurs eighteen times
(Gene...
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The pangs of remorse and the upbraidings of conscience form the
terrible climax to the loss of honour and health and substance.
" -Going down to the chambers of death," wise too late, the victim of
h...
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I WAS ALMOST IN ALL EVIL— _I am plunged into almost all evils in the
midst of the assembly of my people._ Calmet. Houbigant renders it, _I
am well nigh become the most miserable of all those amongst w...
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CHAPTER 5
TEXT Proverbs 5:1-14
1.
My son, attend unto my wisdom;
Incline thine ear to my understanding:
2.
That thou mayest preserve discretion,
And that thy lips may keep knowledge.
3.
For th...
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I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and
assembly.
I WAS ALMOST IN ALL EVIL-IN THE MIDST OF THE CONGREGATION AND
ASSEMBLY. There was scarcely any sin that I did not engage in;...
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UNHOLY PASSION. HALLOWED LOVE
A dissuasive from immorality addressed exclusively to men. The two
leading thoughts are (1) the disastrous consequences of adultery; loss
of honour, property, life, oppo...
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 5
Chapter 5 is a poem. The poem has two subjects:
1. A married woman tempts a man who is not her husband.
2. Evil things are like this woman,...
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I WAS ALMOST IN ALL EVIL... — Rather, _I had almost fallen into
every sin: I was so infatuated that I might have committed any sin,
and that openly before all._ Or, _I might have been visited with
ext...
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כִּ֭ מְעַט הָיִ֣יתִי בְ כָל ־רָ֑ע בְּ
תֹ֖וךְ קָהָ֣ל וְ עֵדָֽה׃...
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CHAPTER 6
THE WAYS AND ISSUES OF SIN
"His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with
the cords of his sin. He shall die for lack of instruction; And in the
greatness of his fo...
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QUICKSANDS! KEEP OFF!
Proverbs 5:1-14
It is a matter for great thankfulness that the Bible, which is God's
book rather than man's, deals so strongly and wisely with one great
evil, which has manifes...
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This is a parental exhortation against impurity. It is expressed in
words of great delicacy and beauty, but it is none the less urgent and
searching. It recognizes one of the most subtle and natural
t...
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I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and (g)
assembly.
(g) Although I was faithfully instructed in the truth, yet I almost
fell to utter shame and destruction nonetheless, by goo...
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_Evil. Infirm and worn out, having lost my reputation, &c. (Calmet)
--- Though I lived among the faithful, I was under no restraint.
(Menochius)_...
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Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of
my mouth. Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of
her house: Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 9.
There are two very distinct parts in this book. The first nine Chapter
s, which give the great general principles; and the proverbs, properly
so...
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I WAS ALMOST IN ALL EVIL,.... Scarce a sin but he was guilty of;
contempt of private and public instructions, the instructions of
parents and ministers of the Gospel, and following lewd women,
commonl...
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I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and
assembly.
Ver. 14. _I was almost in all evil._] Abraham Ben Ezra reads it in the
future tense, _Brevi ero in omni malo,_ I shall shortly...
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_Come not nigh the door of her house_ Lest thine eyes affect thy
heart, and her allurements prevail over thee. _Lest thou give thine
honour_ Thy dignity and reputation, the strength and vigour of thy...
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WARNING AGAINST WANTONNESS...
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1-14 Solomon cautions all young men, as his children, to abstain from
fleshly lusts. Some, by the adulterous woman, here understand
idolatry, false doctrine, which tends to lead astray men's minds an...
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I WAS ALMOST IN ALL EVIL. Oh what a miserable man am I! There is
scarce any misery, in respect of estate, or body, or soul, into which
I am not already plunged. The words also are and may well be rend...
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Proverbs 5:14 verge H4592 ruin H7451 midst H8432 assembly H6951
congregation H5712
Proverbs 13:20; Numbers 25:1-6; Hosea 4:11-14; 1 Corinthians 10:6-8; 2
Peter 2:10-18;...
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THE NEED TO LISTEN TO SOLOMON'S WISDOM AND NOT TO BE ENTICED BY THE
WORDS OF THE STRANGE WOMAN WHICH LEAD TO DEATH AND SLAVERY (PROVERBS
5:1).
The constant reference to the need to avoid the enticemen...
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CONTENTS: Caution against the sin of whoredom.
CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son.
CONCLUSION: We ought industriously to avoid everything that might be
an occasion of the sin of adultery or a step to...
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Proverbs 5:3. _The lips of a strange woman drop as a honey-comb._ She
employs all her arts for bread, for drunkenness, for crime. How
wretched, how bitter is the life of a ruined and abandoned woman....
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_My son, attend unto my wisdom._
CAUTION AGAINST SEXUAL SINS
The scope of the passage is a warning against seventh-commandment
sins, which youth is so prone to, the temptations to which are so
viole...
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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 5:9 The man who follows after the
forbidden woman will see others take away from him the things that he
himself should have enjoyed later in life (HONOR and YEARS, v.
Proverb...
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_ILLUSTRATION OF Proverbs 5:19_
Here we have started up, and sent leaping over the plain, another of
Solomon’s favourites. What elegant creatures those gazelles are, and
how gracefully they bound. We...
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 5:1
8. _Eighth admonitory discourse. Warning against adultery, and
commendation of marriage. _The teacher, in this discourse, recurs to a
subject which he has glanced at before in...
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Now my son, attend unto my wisdom, bow your ear to my understanding:
That you may regard discretion, and that your lips may keep knowledge
(Proverbs 5:1; Proverbs 5:2).
And now he's going to warn his...
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1 Corinthians 10:6; 2 Peter 2:10; Hosea 4:11; Jude 1:7; Numbers 25:1;
Proverbs 13:20...
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A moment — In how little a time am I now come into remediless
misery! Assembly — And that in the congregation of Israel, where I
was taught better things....