18But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead. …
For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-18)We have heard what Christ has to say, to engage our affections to God and godliness, and one would think the whole world should go after him; but here we are told how industrious the tempter is to seduce unwary souls into the paths of sin, and with the most he gains his point, and Wisdom’s courtship is not effectual. Now observe, I. Who is the tempter— a foolish woman , Folly herself, in oppositio…
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