8Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
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Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. …
And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her.
Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(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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