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For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?
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A Question of Sanity
Commentators frame this verse as a powerful, rhetorical question. After describing the blessings of a faithful marriage, the author essentially asks, "Why would you possibly choose the destructive path?" John Gill notes this appeal highlights the foolishness and irrationality of choosing adultery over the God-given gift of marriage.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Emphasis is laid (see the Proverbs 2:16 note) upon the origin of the beguiler.
19th Century
Anglican
Drink waters out of thine own cistern ...—In these verses Solomon urges his disciples to follow after purity in the married life; …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And why will you, my son, be ravished with a strange woman F25; &c.] Or "err with her"; after all those inconv…
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Lawful marriage is a means God has appointed to keep from these destructive vices. But we are not properly united, unless we attend to God's word, …
