to call to those who pass by, who go straight on their ways,
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Passages linked to Proverbs 9:15 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Proverbs 7:25-27 Don’t let your heart turn to her ways. Don’t go astray in her paths, for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army. Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death.
- Proverbs 23:27-28 For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well. Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.
- Proverbs 7:13-15 So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him: “Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. Today I have paid my vows. Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and I have found you.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Pro 9:15 To call passengers who go right on…
Pro 9:15 To call passengers who go right on their ways:
Ver. 15. That go right on their way.] She fights at the fairest, seeks to seduce the forwardest. "They shall deceive, if it were possible, the very elect." {Mat 24:24} Flies settle upon the sweetest perfumes when they are cold, and corrupt them.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Who were going innocently and directly about their business…
Who were going innocently and directly about their business without any unchaste design; for others needed none of those invitations or offers, but went to her of their own accord. And besides, such lewd persons take a greater pleasure in corrupting the innocent.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain To call passengers who go right on their ways.…
To call passengers who go right on their ways. Who have been religiously educated, and trained up in the principles of true Christianity; and who walk outwardly according to the rule of the divine word, and are in a fair way for heaven and eternal happiness. These she has her eye upon as they pass along, and calls unto them, and endeavours to turn them aside out of the way they are going, to make them proselytes to her antichristian religion; which, when she succeeds in, she glories and boasts of; just as harlots are very desirous of seducing and debauching chaste, innocent, and virtuous persons; see Rev 2:20. Saying as follows:
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pro 9:16Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither,.... The harlot's house, Popish chapels and churches. She uses the same form of words that Wisdom does, Pro 9:4; having a form of godliness, a show of religion, but without the power of it; her priests are wolves in sheep's clothing, and speak lies in hypocrisy: and such that she fixes upon as proper persons to work on are the simple, the credulous and unwary; who are not on their guard, and are easily persuaded and imposed on;
and as for him that wanteth understanding; is not well grounded in the principles of Christianity he professes; has not a spiritual and experimental understanding of them:
she saith to him; addresses him in such language as follows:
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Go right - Who are going innocently about their…
Go right - Who are going innocently about their business.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain to allure those who are right-minded, and who are…
to allure those who are right-minded, and who are addressed as in Pro 9:4, as
simple--that is, easily led (Pro 1:4) and unsettled, though willing to do right.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 15. To call passengers — This is her object,…
15. To call passengers — This is her object, to draw even those aside into her haunts of folly and impurity who are going straight forward to the school of wisdom and virtue. She is, in this respect, a fair representative of the modern “saloon keeper.”
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 15. who go right on their ways] who are…
15. who go right on their ways] who are not putting themselves in the way of temptation by loitering or straying into by-ways, but who, though in the path of duty, are unwary and unsuspecting, and so need warning.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain To call passengers who go right on their ways.…
To call passengers who go right on their ways. With shameless effrontery she cries to all that pass by, she addresses her solicitations to persons who are going straight on their way, thinking nothing of her, having no idea of deviating from their pursued object. As they walk in the path of right and duty, she tries to turn them aside. Septuagint, "Calling to herself (proskaloumenh ) those that pass by and are keeping straight in their ways." The Fathers find here a picture of the seductions of heretical teaching, which puts on the mask of orthodoxy and deceives the unwary. Wordsworth notes that, in the Apocalypse, the false teacher bears some emblems of the Lamb. (Rev_13:11) All false doctrine retains some element of truth, and it is because of this admixture that it procures adherents and thrives for a time.
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The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain To call passengers who go right on their ways.
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To call passengers who go right on their ways.
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The tempted ones
Who are the tempted? Young people who have been well-educated; these she will triumph most in being the ruin of.
I. What their real character is. Passengers that go right on their ways; that have been trained up in the paths of religion and virtue, and set out very hopefully and well; that seemed determined and designed for good, and are not (as that young man in Pro_7:8) going the way to her house. Such as these she has a design upon, and lays snares for, and uses all her arts, all her charms, to pervert them; if they go right on, and will not look toward her, she will call after them, so urgent are these temptations.
II. How the foolish woman represents them. She calls them simple and wanting understanding, and therefore courts them to her school, that they may be cured of the restraints and formalities of their religion. This is the method of the stage, where the sober young man that has been virtuously educated is the fool in the play, and the plot is to make him seven times more a child of hell than his profane companions, under colour of polishing and refining him, and setting him up for a wit and a beau. What is justly charged upon sin and impiety (Pro_9:4) that it is folly, is here very unjustly retorted upon the ways of virtue; but the day will declare who are the fools. (Matthew Henry.)
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