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12Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

Proverbs 7:12

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Matthew Henry

(vv. 6-23)

Solomon here, to enforce the caution he had given against the sin of whoredom, tells a story of a young man that was ruined to all intents and purposes by the enticements of an adulterous woman. Such a story as this would serve the lewd profane poets of our age to make a play of, and the harlot with them would be a heroine; nothing would be so entertaining to the audience, nor give them so much di...

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