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As a dog that returns to his vomit, So is a fool who repeats his folly.
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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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19th Century
Anglican
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…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
As a dog returns to his vomit Who being sick with what he has eaten, casts it up again, and afterwards returns to it…
Presbyterian
The dog is a loathsome emblem of those sinners who return to their vices (2 Peter 2:22).
