Proverbs Book #7C (Commentary only)

Proverbs Book #7C (Commentary only)


Matthew Henry Concise Commentary - Chapter 7

Invitations to learn wisdom. (1-5) The arts of seducers, with
warnings against them. (6-27)

Verses 1-5 We must lay up God's commandments safely. Not
only, Keep them, and you shall live; but, Keep them as those
that cannot live without them.

Those that blame strict and careful walking as needless and
too precise, consider not that the law is to be kept as the apple
of the eye; indeed the law in the heart is the eye of the soul.

Let the word of God dwell in us, and so be written where it will
be always at hand to be read. Thus we shall be kept from the
fatal effects of our own passions, and the snares of Satan.
Let God's word confirm our dread of sin, and resolutions
against it.

Verses 6-27 Here is an affecting example of the danger of
youthful lusts. It is a history or a parable of the most instructive
kind. Will any one dare to venture on temptations that lead
to impurity, after Solomon has set before his eyes in so lively
and plain a manner, the danger of even going near them?

Then is he as the man who would dance on the edge of a lofty
rock, when he has just seen another fall headlong from the
same place. The misery of self-ruined sinners began in disregard
to God's blessed commands.

We ought daily to pray that we may be kept from running into
temptation, else we invite the enemies of our souls to spread
snares for us.

Ever avoid the neighbourhood of vice. Beware of sins which are
said to be pleasant sins. They are the more dangerous, because
they most easily gain the heart, and close it against repentance.

Do nothing till thou hast well considered the end of it. Were a
man to live as long as Methuselah, and to spend all his days in
the highest delights sin can offer, one hour of the anguish and
tribulation that must follow, would far outweigh them.

God Bless you -
Chip Tarver
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