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To deliver you from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;
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A Warning Against Adultery
Commentators explain that the 'strange woman' literally refers to an adulteress. Several scholars note a specific historical context where foreign women, with different moral standards influenced by paganism, became a source of temptation in Israel. The verse is a direct, practical warning against the destructive power of sexual sin.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The second great evil, the warnings against which are frequent (see the marginal reference). Two words are used to describe the class.
19th Century
Anglican
To deliver you from the strange woman.— Another work of wisdom is to save from profligacy. Of the two epithets used here,…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
To deliver thee from the strange woman As the Gospel of Christ and its doctrines, or the instructions of wisdom, are…
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