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Verse Proverbs 5:16. _LET THY FOUNTAINS BE DISPERSED ABROAD_] Let thy
children lawfully begotten be numerous....
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Wedded love streams forth in blessing on all around, on children and
on neighbors and ill the streets, precisely because the wife’s true
love is given to the husband only....
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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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LET THY FOUNTAINS. Septuagint reads "Let not thy fountain", &c. This
must be the sense from the context. The Revised Version obtains it by.
question, "Should thy fountain... ?".
FOUNTAINS. Plural of...
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The remedy against sin is to be found in the holy estate which God has
ordained. "The resemblance between the two Books (the Song of Solomon
and the Book of Proverbs) in their treatment of this subjec...
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TEXT Proverbs 5:15-23
15.
Drink waters out of thine own cistern,
And running waters out of thine own well.
16.
Should thy springs be dispersed abroad,
And streams of water in the streets?
17....
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Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the
streets.
LET THY FOUNTAINS BE DISPERSED ABROAD, (AND) RIVERS OF WATERS IN THE
STREETS - i:e., by being faithful to thine own wife...
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5:16 fountains (l-2) Ver. 16 as ch. 8.24; ver. 18 as ch. 10.11....
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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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(15-20) DRINK WATERS OUT OF THINE OWN CISTERN... — In these verses
Solomon urges his disciples to follow after purity in the married
life; he pictures in vivid terms the delights which it affords as
c...
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יָפ֣וּצוּ מַעְיְנֹתֶ֣יךָ ח֑וּצָה
בָּ֝ † רְחֹבֹ֗ות פַּלְגֵי ־מָֽיִם׃...
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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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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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_Waters. Mayst thou have a numerous offspring, (ver. 10.) and be
liberal. Many copies of the Septuagint, &c., have a negation, with
Aquila, "let not thy," &c., (Calmet) though it my be read with and
i...
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Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine
own well. Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters
in the streets. Let them be only thine own, and not strange...
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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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LET THY FOUNTAINS BE DISPERSED ABROAD,.... Or "shall abound", as the
Targum; that is, streams of water from fountains; which Aben Ezra
interprets of a multitude of children, namely, that are lawfully...
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_Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, [and] rivers of waters in the
streets._
Ver. 16. _Let thy fountains be dispersed._] "Thy fountains," that is,
thy children. Let thine end in marrying be, that...
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_Let thy fountains_ Rather, _thy streams_, as Dr. Waterland renders
the word, that is, thy children, proceeding from thy wife, called _thy
fountain, Proverbs 5:18_, and from thyself; _be dispersed abr...
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CHASTITY CONTRASTED WITH UNCHASTITY...
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15-23 Lawful marriage is a means God has appointed to keep from these
destructive vices. But we are not properly united, except as we attend
to God's word, seeking his direction and blessing, and acti...
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THY FOUNTAINS; thy children proceeding from thy wife, called _thy
fountain_, PROVERBS 5:18, and from thyself, as the Israelites are said
to come from the fountain of Israel, DEUTERONOMY 33:28 PSALMS 6...
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Proverbs 5:16 fountains H4599 dispersed H6327 (H8799) abroad H2351
Streams H6388 water H4325 streets H7339
thy - Deuteronomy 33:28; Psalms 68:26; Isaiah 48:21
dispersed - Genesis 24:60; Judges 12:9
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SOLOMON CALLS ON HIS SON TO BE FAITHFUL TO HIS TRUE WIFE, AND TO
OBTAIN HIS SEXUAL ENJOYMENTS FROM HER (PROVERBS 5:15).
In contrast Solomon now brings home to ‘his son' (Proverbs 5:20) the
joys of sex...
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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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_Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad._
THE CHILDREN OF MARRIAGE
Streams of children. Unlawful intercourse is often barren.
I. Children of lawful marriage are like rivers.
1. In plenty. God’s ble...
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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 5:15 The wife is pictured as a source of
water (WELL, FOUNTAIN, etc.). The man who is tempted to commit
adultery should think about how he would feel if his wife were to do
t...
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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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Deuteronomy 33:28; Genesis 24:60; Isaiah 48:21; Judges 12:9; Psalms
127:3; Psalms 128:3; Psalms 68:26...
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Fountains — Thy children proceeding from thy wife and from thyself.
Fountains are here put for rivers flowing from them. Dispersed —
They shall in due time appear abroad to thy comfort, and for the go...