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Verse Proverbs 5:4. _BITTER AS WORMWOOD_] כלענה _Kelanah_, like
the _detestable_ herb _wormwood_, or something analogous to it:
something as excessive in its _bitterness_, as _honey_ is in its
_sweetn...
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WORMWOOD - In Eastern medicine this herb, the absinthium of Greek and
Latin botanists, was looked upon as poisonous rather than medicinal.
Compare Revelation 8:11....
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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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_wormwood_ The reference is perhaps not merely to the _bitterness_,
but to the _noxiousness_of this herb. See Deuteronomy 29:18, and
Revelation 8:10-11, where "many men died of the waters" into which...
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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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But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
BUT HER END IS BITTER AS WORMWOOD - (). The flesh promises every
delight, but it leaves bitter dregs (Mercer). The strange woman's own...
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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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BITTER AS WORMWOOD. — The _absinthium_ of Revelation 8:11, where,
apparently, it is considered as a poison. So God’s message to St.
John (Revelation 10:10) was in his mouth sweet as honey (comp. Psalm...
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וְֽ֭ אַחֲרִיתָהּ מָרָ֣ה כַֽ †
לַּעֲנָ֑ה חַ֝דָּ֗ה כְּ חֶ֣רֶב
פִּיֹּֽות׃...
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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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_Sword. "It is a crime even to hearken." (St. Ambrose, de Abrah. ii.
11.) She seeks thy ruin, ver. 5., and chap. ii. 16._...
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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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BUT HER END IS BITTER AS WORMWOOD,.... Which is opposed to the
honeycomb her lips are said to drop; so that, as Juvenal says g, "plus
aloes quam mellis habet": the end which she brings persons to, or...
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But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
Ver. 4. _But her end is bitter as wormwood._] The pleasure passeth,
the sting remaineth; for in the froth of this filthy pleasure is bred...
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_For the lips of a strange woman_, &c. It concerns thee to get and to
use discretion, that thou mayest be able to resist those manifold
temptations to which thou art exposed; _drop as a honeycomb_ Her...
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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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Her design, and the effect of that lewdness to which she enticeth men,
is the sinner's destruction....
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Proverbs 5:4 end H319 bitter H4751 wormwood H3939 Sharp H2299
two-edged H6310 sword H2719
her - Proverbs 6:24-35, Proverbs 7:22-23, Proverbs 9:18, Proverbs
23:27-28; Ecclesiastes 7:26;...
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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 5:2 The son’s LIPS MAY GUARD KNOWLEDGE,
that is, he should not speak anything that is inconsistent with true
knowledge and wisdom. In contrast, THE LIPS OF A FORBIDDEN WOMAN...
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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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Ecclesiastes 7:26; Hebrews 12:15; Hebrews 12:16; Hebrews 4:12; Judges
16:15; Judges 16:4; Proverbs 23:27; Proverbs 23:28; Proverbs 6:24;...
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But — The effect of that to which she entices men, is destruction....