Come, let us take our fill of love till morning. Let us delight in loving caresses!
Solomon here, to enforce the caution he had given against the sin of whoredom, tells a story of a young man that was ruined to all intents and purposes by the enticements of an adulterous woman. Such a story as this would serve the lewd profane poets of our age to make a play of, and the harlot with them would be a heroine; nothing...
Commenting on Proverbs 7:6-23
For the good man is not at home,.... Or, "for the man is not in his house" (y). She does not say, "my man", or "my husband"; though the Septuagint. Syriac, and Arabic versions so render it; lest this should throw some difficulty in the young man's way, or remind herself of her conjugal obligation; but "the man", by way of contempt, as disowning him...
Pro 7:16-18 Thus she found him, and described to him the enjoyment which awaited him in eating and drinking, then in the pleasures of love. 16 “My bed have I spread with cushions, Variegated coverlets, Egyptian linen; 17 I have sprinkled my couch With myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
Commenting on Proverbs 7:16-18