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For her house leads down to death, Her paths to the dead.
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A House That Sinks to Death
Commentators are unanimous that the path of the adulteress leads directly to death. This is not merely symbolic. Scholars explain that this includes social death (loss of reputation), physical death (from disease or retribution), and ultimately eternal death. The image is of a house that literally sinks into the realm of the dead, a final and catastrophic end.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The house of the adulteress is like Hades, the realm of death, haunted by the spectral shadows of the dead (Rephaim, see the Psalms 88:10 note), wh…
19th Century
Anglican
Besides the literal sense of this passage, as given above, commentators have very generally found in it a spiritual meaning, a warning against idol…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For her house inclines to death Bends, verges, and points that way; it lies in the way to death, and brings to it, a…
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