John Gill Commentary Proverbs 7:15

"Therefore came I forth to meet thee, Diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee." — Proverbs 7:15 (ASV)

Therefore came I forth to meet you
Having so much good cheer at home, and none to eat of it with her; and having so fond and affectionate a regard to this young man, as she pretended. He being the only person in her thoughts, whom she hoped to meet with, and whose company she desired, and his only; though, had she met any other, she would have said the same things to them. Aben Ezra, upon (Proverbs 7:14) , says, she told him lies; probably that might be true; but this was no doubt a lie; and it is no unusual thing for the whore of Rome to speak lies in hypocrisy, (1 Timothy 4:2) ; diligently to seek your face ; which of all faces she desired to see, being most lovely to her; with the comeliness of which she was exceedingly taken and ravished, and got up betimes in the morning, as the word ^F14 signifies, even before day, to seek for him; and I have found you ; which she speaks with a rapture and ecstasy of joy; blessing herself on this happy occasion, that she should come out so opportunely, and find him so quickly; intimating, that it was a kind providence, and that the thing was of God: so conversions to the antichristian church, which are the artifice of hell, are ascribed to the divine Being.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F14: (rxvl) "ad quaerendum mane", Montanus.