Proverbs 7:7(v32)I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,
Proverbs 7:22-23(v32)He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose. Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as…
Hebrews 13:4(v32)Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Romans 1:22-24(v32)Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of…
Proverbs 2:18-19(v32)for her house leads down to death, her paths to the departed spirits. None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths…
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Ecclesiastes 7:25-26(v32)I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is…
Genesis 39:9-10(v32)No one is greater in this house than I am, and he has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do…
Genesis 41:39(v32)Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Because God has shown you all of this, there is no one so discreet and wise as you.
Numbers 5:14(v34)and the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife and she is defiled; or if the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and…
Proverbs 5:9-11(v33)lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel one; lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another…
Proverbs 27:4(v34)Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?
Song of Solomon 8:6(v34)Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes…
Genesis 49:4(v33)Boiling over like water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father’s bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch.
Judges 16:19-21(v33)She made him sleep on her knees; and she called for a man and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his…
1 Kings 15:5(v33)because David did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and didn’t turn away from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life,…
2 Kings 5:1(v35)Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him Yahweh had given…
Nehemiah 13:26(v33)Didn’t Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations there was no king like him, and he was loved by his God, and God…
Psalms 38:1-8(v33)Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure. For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard…
Psalms 51:1(v33)Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
Psalms 51:8(v33)Let me hear joy and gladness, that the bones which you have broken may rejoice.
Proverbs 4:3(v35)For I was a son to my father, tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.
Proverbs 5:22-23(v32)The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly. He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of…
Proverbs 7:13(v35)So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:
Proverbs 8:25(v35)Before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I was born;
Proverbs 8:36(v32)But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.”
Proverbs 9:4(v32)“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,
Proverbs 9:16-18(v32)“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here.” as for him who is void of understanding, she says to him, “Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in…
Isaiah 2:9(v35)Man is brought low, and mankind is humbled; therefore don’t forgive them.
Jeremiah 5:8(v32)They were as fed horses roaming at large. Everyone neighed after his neighbor’s wife.
Jeremiah 5:21(v32)‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:
Ezekiel 18:31(v32)Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will…
Hosea 4:11-12(v32)Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding. My people consult with their wooden idol, and answer to a stick of wood. Indeed…
Malachi 2:9(v35)“Therefore I have also made you contemptible and wicked before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had…
Matthew 1:6(v33)Jesse became the father of King David. David became the father of Solomon by her who had been Uriah’s wife.
1 Corinthians 10:22(v34)Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
Numbers 25:11(v34)“Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was jealous…
Judges 19:29-30(v34)When he had come into his house, he took a knife and cut up his concubine, and divided her, limb by limb, into twelve pieces, and sent her…
Hosea 13:9(v32)You are destroyed, Israel, because you are against me, against your help.
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Geneva Bible translators1599 · Public DomainOn vv32–34Hebrew, faileth in heart.
Hebrew, faileth in heart.
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John Trapp1656 · Public DomainOn vv32–34Pro 6:32 [But] whoso committeth adultery with a woman…
Pro 6:32 [But] whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he [that] doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
Ver. 32. Lacketh understanding.] Being wholly carried by sensual appetite, against the dictates both of religion and of reason. Beetles love dunghills better than ointments, and swine love mud better than a garden. Luther tells of a certain noble in his country so besotted with the sin of whoredom, he was not ashamed to say, that if he might ever live here, and be carried from one whore house to another, there to satisfy his lusts, he would never desire any other heaven. This filthy man did afterwards breathe out his wretched soul between two notorious harlots.
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Destroyeth his own soul.] It is not therefore leve peccatum, a small sin, as the pope’s canonists call it. {a} Divine justice doth not use to kill flies with beetles.
{a} Loniceri Theat. Histor., p. 568.
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Matthew Poole1685 · Public DomainOn vv32–35Lacketh understanding; is a brutish and silly man, who…
Lacketh understanding; is a brutish and silly man, who madly rusheth upon these filthy courses, without any sense or consideration of the horrid shame and certain destruction which attends upon them.
Destroyeth his own soul, or life; is guilty of self-murder and of soul-murder.
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John Gill1763 · Public DomainOn vv32–34A wound and dishonour shall he get,.... A wound,…
A wound and dishonour shall he get,.... A wound, stroke, or blow, either from the husband of the strumpet, as was often the case (x) in later times; or from the civil magistrate, being ordered by him to be beaten (y) or stoned; or from God himself inflicting diseases on him; see Gen 12:17; where the same word is used as here: and "dishonour" from men; for though they do not despise a thief in circumstances before related, yet they will despise an adulterer, and speak reproachfully of him, whenever they have occasion to make mention of him;
and his reproach shall not be wiped away; as long as he lives, though his life may be spared; yea, it shall even continue after death; and though he may repent of his sin and reform, as in the case of David.
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(x) "Secat ille cruentis verberibus", Juvenal. Satyr. 10. v. 316. Vid. A. Gell. Noct. Attic. l. 17. c. 18. Horat. Satyr. l. 1. Sat. 2. v. 41, 42. (y) Valer. Maximus, l. 6. c. 1. s. 13.
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John Wesley1765 · Public DomainOn v34Rage - It enflames a man with rage. In…
Rage - It enflames a man with rage. In the day - When he hath an opportunity to avenge himself.
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Adam Clarke1810 · Public DomainOn vv32–35Verse 32. But whoso committeth adultery] The case understood…
Verse 32. But whoso committeth adultery] The case understood is that of a married man: he has a wife; and therefore is not in the circumstances of the poor thief, who stole to appease his hunger, having nothing to eat. In this alone the opposition between the two cases is found: the thief had no food, and he stole some; the married man had a wife, and yet went in to the wife of his neighbour.
Destroyeth his own soul.] Sins against his life, for, under the law of Moses, adultery was punished with death; Le 20:10; De 22:22.
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Folly. Literally, "want," inopiam. Hebrew, "is faint-hearted, corrupting his own soul, he will do that." (Haydock)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown1871 · Public DomainOn vv32–34lacketh understanding--or, "heart"; destitute of moral principle and prudence.
lacketh understanding--or, "heart"; destitute of moral principle and prudence.
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Daniel D. Whedon1874 · Public DomainOn vv32–3532. Whose committeth adultery, taking all the circumstances and…
32. Whose committeth adultery, taking all the circumstances and consequences into the account, acts like a madman or simpleton — like one who seeks to destroy his own life. Unlike the thief who steals to satisfy his hunger, he unnecessarily robs a man of his wife, and when discovered will not merely lose his property, but forfeit his life. See Lev_20:10; Deu_22:22. The argument here is a fortiori, from the less to the greater. If a thief is punished for stealing to satisfy his hunger, how much more the adulterer!
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges1878 · Public DomainOn vv32, 3432. understanding] Lit. heart. See Pro_2:2, note.
32. understanding] Lit. heart. See Pro_2:2, note.
he that doeth it destroyeth] Rather, he doeth it that would destroy.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers1878 · Public DomainOn v34(34) For jealousy is the rage of a man.—That…
(34) For jealousy is the rage of a man.—That is jealousy is furious, and cannot be appeased by bribes.
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The Pulpit Commentary1880 · Public DomainOn vv32–35But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding.…
But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding. The adversative "but" is wanting in the original, but is clearly demanded by the contrast which is instituted. The man who steals from hunger has a motive for so doing, but the adulterer has no such excuse for his crime, which is an unwarrantable invasion of his neighbour"s rights. Because there are honest ways for satisfying his desires, he therefore "lacketh understanding." Committeth adultery with a woman; Hebrew, noeph ishshah; LXX, o moicov ; Vulgate, qui adulter est; i.e. an adulterer. The Hebrew naaph, "to commit adultery," is here followed by an accusative, as in Lev_20:10 and Jer_29:23. Lacketh understanding; Hebrew, khasar-lev; deficit corde. The verb khaser is "to be devoid of anything," "to lack." The expression, which occurs again in Pro_7:7 and Pro_9:4, refers to the brutish and stupid condition to which lust has reduced him. Lust has displaced right reason. He is expers judicii (Syriac), devoid of judgment, without intelligence, senseless and stupid. In modern phraseology, he has taken leave of his senses. Both the LXX and Vulgate have combined the two branches of this verse, the former rendering, "But the adulterer, on account of want of intelligence, compasses the loss of his life," and the latter, "But the adulterer, on account of want of intelligence, loses his life." He that doeth it destroyeth his own soul; or literally, whoso will destroy his life he will do this, i.e. adultery. So Ariae Montani, Munsterus, Chaldee Targum. The man who commits adultery is a self-murderer. The phrase, mashkith naph"sho, corrumpens animam suam, may be resolved into the concrete "a self-destroyer," as Delitzsch. The following verses seem to indicate that it is the temporal life which is referred to in nephesh, but the meaning of the term may be extended to embrace not only physical loss of life, but also moral and spiritual loss. By the Levitical Law adultery was punished by death: "The man that committeth adultery with another man"s wife ... the adulterer and adulteress shall surely be put to death". (Lev_20:10; cf. Deu_22:22Jo Deu_8:4, Deu_8:5; see also 1Th_4:6)
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The Biblical Illustrator1887 · Public DomainOn v32He that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
Pro_6:32
He that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
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The suicide of the soul
Lovely as maiden purity is, and crowned with benedictions though it is by Christ, we have here to learn its excellence and fear its loss, by the sad, stern picture of impurity and shameless sin. In these sad proverbs of purity the wise man pictures to us in fearful personification wisdoms rival standing in the same great thoroughfares of earth and bidding to her shameful pleasures the simple youth who throng the broad and crowded way. This is no fancy picture allegorising the dangers of youth. It is drawn from reality, from every-day life. There is no mistake in the outline, no exaggeration in the colouring. The power of sin lies in its pleasure. They are mistaken who assert that there are no gratifications in the enjoyments of sense. Were there none, they would not be so diligently sought. Sin, which brings death to the soul, is yet sweet to the taste. The more we sin the more perverted becomes our taste, the more clamorous for further indulgence. But these stolen waters of sinful pleasure are not always sweet. Pleasant though they may be at the first, they will yet become bitter indeed. Much of the sinners peril grows out of his simple ignorance. Sin naturally brings with it temporal and physical suffering. But the pleasures of the sensualist are the preludes to a misery words refuse to paint. The sentence that to the defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure is fulfilled to the letter. Even the innocent pleasures of conversation become to the sensualist defiling, for he turns them into the foul channel of his own base thought. The mind and conscience of the impure are defiled. The mental faculties of the depraved and sensual lose at once and for ever the power of discerning and appreciating that which is excellent, lovely, and true. The deep things of God are no subjects for the lover of sensual sin to dwell upon. Sensuality not only prevents us from exercising our mental powers with freedom and profit, but it also wastes and enfeebles those powers themselves. Long since has this enfeebling of the intellectual man been noticed as the result of impurity of life. The sensualist must make his choice between intellect and mental imbecility. If any man defile the temple of God, which is our body, him will God destroy. This avenging work of destruction is well-nigh accomplished here on earth. Body, spirit, and soul--all is impure. But to the pure all things are pure. Unheeding the solicitations of the wanton, they go straight on their way. And this purity may be ours. Not indeed gained by our own strength, nor by any strength save that which is found at the foot of the Cross. Why may we not thus purify ourselves? To the life of purity we are called throughout the Book of Proverbs, and the cry of heavenly Wisdom is, Seek early, for the early seekers shall find. (Bp. William Stevens Perry.)
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unfoldingWord translationNotes2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0On vv32, 34The one
The one
"The person" or "The man"
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what he deserves
"the appropriate punishment for what he has done"
his disgrace
This figure of speech is using the term "disgrace" to refer to the feeling of him acting shamefully. AT: "the memory of his shameful act" (See: Metonymy)
will not be wiped away
This figure of speech is using the negative "will not be wiped away" to refer to it always being there. AT: "will always remain" (See: Litotes)
Tyndale Open Study Notes2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0On v326:32-35 A thief might be punished severely even if…
6:32-35 A thief might be punished severely even if he had a reason for his actions, but his punishment is nothing compared to an adulterer’s, who has no excuse for his crime. A jealous husband will seek the full punishment provided by law, which is death (Deut 22:22).
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv32–34 Hebrew, faileth in heart.
Hebrew, faileth in heart.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv32–34 Pro 6:32 [But] whoso committeth adultery with a woman…
Pro 6:32 [But] whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he [that] doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
Ver. 32. Lacketh understanding.] Being wholly carried by sensual appetite, against the dictates both of religion and of reason. Beetles love dunghills better than ointments, and swine love mud better than a garden. Luther tells of a certain noble in his country so besotted with the sin of whoredom, he was not ashamed to say, that if he might ever live here, and be carried from one whore house to another, there to satisfy his lusts, he would never desire any other heaven. This filthy man did afterwards breathe out his wretched soul between two notorious harlots.
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Destroyeth his own soul.] It is not therefore leve peccatum, a small sin, as the pope’s canonists call it. {a} Divine justice doth not use to kill flies with beetles.
{a} Loniceri Theat. Histor., p. 568.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv32–35 Lacketh understanding; is a brutish and silly man, who…
Lacketh understanding; is a brutish and silly man, who madly rusheth upon these filthy courses, without any sense or consideration of the horrid shame and certain destruction which attends upon them.
Destroyeth his own soul, or life; is guilty of self-murder and of soul-murder.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv32–34 A wound and dishonour shall he get,.... A wound,…
A wound and dishonour shall he get,.... A wound, stroke, or blow, either from the husband of the strumpet, as was often the case (x) in later times; or from the civil magistrate, being ordered by him to be beaten (y) or stoned; or from God himself inflicting diseases on him; see Gen 12:17; where the same word is used as here: and "dishonour" from men; for though they do not despise a thief in circumstances before related, yet they will despise an adulterer, and speak reproachfully of him, whenever they have occasion to make mention of him;
and his reproach shall not be wiped away; as long as he lives, though his life may be spared; yea, it shall even continue after death; and though he may repent of his sin and reform, as in the case of David.
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(x) "Secat ille cruentis verberibus", Juvenal. Satyr. 10. v. 316. Vid. A. Gell. Noct. Attic. l. 17. c. 18. Horat. Satyr. l. 1. Sat. 2. v. 41, 42. (y) Valer. Maximus, l. 6. c. 1. s. 13.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On v34 Rage - It enflames a man with rage. In…
Rage - It enflames a man with rage. In the day - When he hath an opportunity to avenge himself.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On vv32–35 Verse 32. But whoso committeth adultery] The case understood…
Verse 32. But whoso committeth adultery] The case understood is that of a married man: he has a wife; and therefore is not in the circumstances of the poor thief, who stole to appease his hunger, having nothing to eat. In this alone the opposition between the two cases is found: the thief had no food, and he stole some; the married man had a wife, and yet went in to the wife of his neighbour.
Destroyeth his own soul.] Sins against his life, for, under the law of Moses, adultery was punished with death; Le 20:10; De 22:22.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On vv32, 35 Folly. Literally, "want," inopiam. Hebrew, "is faint-hearted, corrupting his…
Folly. Literally, "want," inopiam. Hebrew, "is faint-hearted, corrupting his own soul, he will do that." (Haydock)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On vv32–34 lacketh understanding--or, "heart"; destitute of moral principle and prudence.
lacketh understanding--or, "heart"; destitute of moral principle and prudence.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv32–35 32. Whose committeth adultery, taking all the circumstances and…
32. Whose committeth adultery, taking all the circumstances and consequences into the account, acts like a madman or simpleton — like one who seeks to destroy his own life. Unlike the thief who steals to satisfy his hunger, he unnecessarily robs a man of his wife, and when discovered will not merely lose his property, but forfeit his life. See Lev_20:10; Deu_22:22. The argument here is a fortiori, from the less to the greater. If a thief is punished for stealing to satisfy his hunger, how much more the adulterer!
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv32, 34 32. understanding] Lit. heart. See Pro_2:2, note.
32. understanding] Lit. heart. See Pro_2:2, note.
he that doeth it destroyeth] Rather, he doeth it that would destroy.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On v34 (34) For jealousy is the rage of a man.—That…
(34) For jealousy is the rage of a man.—That is jealousy is furious, and cannot be appeased by bribes.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv32–35 But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding.…
But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding. The adversative "but" is wanting in the original, but is clearly demanded by the contrast which is instituted. The man who steals from hunger has a motive for so doing, but the adulterer has no such excuse for his crime, which is an unwarrantable invasion of his neighbour"s rights. Because there are honest ways for satisfying his desires, he therefore "lacketh understanding." Committeth adultery with a woman; Hebrew, noeph ishshah; LXX, o moicov ; Vulgate, qui adulter est; i.e. an adulterer. The Hebrew naaph, "to commit adultery," is here followed by an accusative, as in Lev_20:10 and Jer_29:23. Lacketh understanding; Hebrew, khasar-lev; deficit corde. The verb khaser is "to be devoid of anything," "to lack." The expression, which occurs again in Pro_7:7 and Pro_9:4, refers to the brutish and stupid condition to which lust has reduced him. Lust has displaced right reason. He is expers judicii (Syriac), devoid of judgment, without intelligence, senseless and stupid. In modern phraseology, he has taken leave of his senses. Both the LXX and Vulgate have combined the two branches of this verse, the former rendering, "But the adulterer, on account of want of intelligence, compasses the loss of his life," and the latter, "But the adulterer, on account of want of intelligence, loses his life." He that doeth it destroyeth his own soul; or literally, whoso will destroy his life he will do this, i.e. adultery. So Ariae Montani, Munsterus, Chaldee Targum. The man who commits adultery is a self-murderer. The phrase, mashkith naph"sho, corrumpens animam suam, may be resolved into the concrete "a self-destroyer," as Delitzsch. The following verses seem to indicate that it is the temporal life which is referred to in nephesh, but the meaning of the term may be extended to embrace not only physical loss of life, but also moral and spiritual loss. By the Levitical Law adultery was punished by death: "The man that committeth adultery with another man"s wife ... the adulterer and adulteress shall surely be put to death". (Lev_20:10; cf. Deu_22:22Jo Deu_8:4, Deu_8:5; see also 1Th_4:6)
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The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain On v32 He that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
Pro_6:32
He that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
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The suicide of the soul
Lovely as maiden purity is, and crowned with benedictions though it is by Christ, we have here to learn its excellence and fear its loss, by the sad, stern picture of impurity and shameless sin. In these sad proverbs of purity the wise man pictures to us in fearful personification wisdoms rival standing in the same great thoroughfares of earth and bidding to her shameful pleasures the simple youth who throng the broad and crowded way. This is no fancy picture allegorising the dangers of youth. It is drawn from reality, from every-day life. There is no mistake in the outline, no exaggeration in the colouring. The power of sin lies in its pleasure. They are mistaken who assert that there are no gratifications in the enjoyments of sense. Were there none, they would not be so diligently sought. Sin, which brings death to the soul, is yet sweet to the taste. The more we sin the more perverted becomes our taste, the more clamorous for further indulgence. But these stolen waters of sinful pleasure are not always sweet. Pleasant though they may be at the first, they will yet become bitter indeed. Much of the sinners peril grows out of his simple ignorance. Sin naturally brings with it temporal and physical suffering. But the pleasures of the sensualist are the preludes to a misery words refuse to paint. The sentence that to the defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure is fulfilled to the letter. Even the innocent pleasures of conversation become to the sensualist defiling, for he turns them into the foul channel of his own base thought. The mind and conscience of the impure are defiled. The mental faculties of the depraved and sensual lose at once and for ever the power of discerning and appreciating that which is excellent, lovely, and true. The deep things of God are no subjects for the lover of sensual sin to dwell upon. Sensuality not only prevents us from exercising our mental powers with freedom and profit, but it also wastes and enfeebles those powers themselves. Long since has this enfeebling of the intellectual man been noticed as the result of impurity of life. The sensualist must make his choice between intellect and mental imbecility. If any man defile the temple of God, which is our body, him will God destroy. This avenging work of destruction is well-nigh accomplished here on earth. Body, spirit, and soul--all is impure. But to the pure all things are pure. Unheeding the solicitations of the wanton, they go straight on their way. And this purity may be ours. Not indeed gained by our own strength, nor by any strength save that which is found at the foot of the Cross. Why may we not thus purify ourselves? To the life of purity we are called throughout the Book of Proverbs, and the cry of heavenly Wisdom is, Seek early, for the early seekers shall find. (Bp. William Stevens Perry.)
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv32, 34 The one
The one
"The person" or "The man"
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what he deserves
"the appropriate punishment for what he has done"
his disgrace
This figure of speech is using the term "disgrace" to refer to the feeling of him acting shamefully. AT: "the memory of his shameful act" (See: Metonymy)
will not be wiped away
This figure of speech is using the negative "will not be wiped away" to refer to it always being there. AT: "will always remain" (See: Litotes)
translationWords
adultery
shame
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v32 6:32-35 A thief might be punished severely even if…
6:32-35 A thief might be punished severely even if he had a reason for his actions, but his punishment is nothing compared to an adulterer’s, who has no excuse for his crime. A jealous husband will seek the full punishment provided by law, which is death (Deut 22:22).
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