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The Repulsive Nature of Sin
Commentators emphasize the intentionally disgusting imagery. Just as a dog returning to its vomit is nauseating, a person who repeatedly returns to a sin they know is foolish and harmful is engaging in a spiritually loathsome act. The verse highlights the filthiness of habitual folly.
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Charles Ellicott
On Proverbs 26:11
19th Century
Bishop
So a fool returneth to his folly.—Though he knows it to be folly, and ruinous to him, yet vice has become to him a second…
John Gill
On Proverbs 26:11
17th Century
Pastor
As a dog returns to his vomit
Who being sick with what he has eaten, casts it up again, and afterwards returns to it…
Matthew Henry
On Proverbs 26:11
17th Century
Minister
The dog is a loathsome emblem of those sinners who return to their vices (2 Peter 2:22).