9In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
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They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof. …
The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. …
And it came to pass about this time, that Joseph went into the house to do his business; and there was none of the men of the house there within.
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
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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