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My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you. See also: Proverbs 1:8Revelation 1:3Luke 11:28Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye. See also: Psalms 17:81 John 2:3-4Proverbs 4:4Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart. See also: Deuteronomy 11:18-20Proverbs 3:3Deuteronomy 6:8-9Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.” Call understanding your relative, See also: Proverbs 4:6-8Proverbs 2:2-4Job 17:14that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words. See also: Proverbs 2:16Proverbs 6:24Proverbs 5:3For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice. See also: Genesis 26:8Judges 5:282 Samuel 6:16I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding, See also: Proverbs 6:32Proverbs 1:22Proverbs 9:16passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house, See also: Proverbs 4:14-15Jude 1:23Proverbs 7:12in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness. See also: Job 24:13-15Romans 13:12-14Ephesians 5:11Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent. See also: 1 Timothy 2:9Isaiah 3:16-242 Corinthians 11:2-3She is loud and defiant. Her feet don’t stay in her house. See also: Proverbs 9:13Titus 2:5Proverbs 31:10-31Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner. See also: Proverbs 23:28Proverbs 9:14Revelation 18:3So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him: See also: Numbers 25:6-8Genesis 39:12Ezekiel 2:6“Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. Today I have paid my vows. See also: Proverbs 21:27Leviticus 7:11Proverbs 15:8Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and I have found you. I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt. See also: Isaiah 19:9Ezekiel 27:7Song of Songs 3:7-10I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. See also: Psalms 45:8Isaiah 57:7-9Exodus 30:23Come, let’s take our fill of loving until the morning. Let’s solace ourselves with loving. For my husband isn’t at home. He has gone on a long journey. See also: Luke 12:45-46Matthew 20:11Matthew 24:43He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon.” See also: 2 Chronicles 2:4With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him. See also: Proverbs 5:3Proverbs 7:52 Kings 4:8He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose. See also: Job 13:27Acts 16:24Jeremiah 20:2Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will cost his life. See also: Ecclesiastes 9:12Proverbs 9:18Proverbs 1:17Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth. See also: Proverbs 5:7Proverbs 4:1Proverbs 8:32-33Don’t let your heart turn to her ways. Don’t go astray in her paths, See also: Proverbs 5:8Proverbs 6:25Isaiah 53:6for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army. See also: 1 Peter 2:11Nehemiah 13:261 Kings 11:1-2Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death. See also: Proverbs 9:18Proverbs 5:5Proverbs 2:18-19
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)15 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Proverbs 7:1
Ver. 1. Words. As dangerous temptations always threaten, the same instructions are frequently inculcated. W.
↑ 1Proverbs 7:5
Ver. 5. Thine. But another's. v. 19. Give thy heart to wisdom, that it may be guarded against impure love.
↑ 5Proverbs 7:6
Ver. 6. Lattice. No glass was used, on account of the great heat. C.
↑ 6Proverbs 7:7
Ver. 7. Ones. Not in age, but prudence. M.
↑ 7Proverbs 7:10
Ver. 10. Attire. Covered with a veil, (Gen. xxxviii. 15.) though different from that of honest women. C. --- The wanton are commonly the most gaudy; nullarum fere pretiosior cultus est quam quarum pudor vilis est. S. Cyp. de Habitu. ---
Prepared, &c. Heb. "guarded," (C.) or
"subtle of heart." Prot. "who makes the hearts of youths take flight." Sept.
Cant. vi. 4. H.
↑ 10Proverbs 7:11
Ver. 11. Not...quiet. Is not in Heb. C. --- "She is loud and stubborn, her feet abide not in her house." Prot. H. --- Chaste women are guarded in their speech, and keep at home. M.
↑ 11Proverbs 7:14
Ver. 14. Prosperity. Or thy welfare, (Corn. a Lap. T.) so great is my love for thee.
M. --- Vows.
And therefore I have a feast prepared. People might carry home the greatest part of the victim to eat, if they were clean. Lev. vii. 29. C.
↑ 14Proverbs 7:16
Ver. 16. Cords. For greater ease, instead of boards, (M.) or the curtains are hung with precious cords from Egypt. C.
↑ 16Proverbs 7:17
Ver. 17. Aloes. Of Syria, (Jo. xix. 39.) different from ours. Num. xxxiv. 6. C.
↑ 17Proverbs 7:18
Ver. 18. Inebriated. Prot. "take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves." H. --- This passion is a sort of intoxication. M.
↑ 18Proverbs 7:19
Ver. 19. My. Lit. "the man." H. --- She speaks thus out of contempt. C.
↑ 19Proverbs 7:20
Ver. 20. The day. Sept. "after many days." Heb. "at the day concealed," or when the people will dwell under tents, (Chal. C.) or "at the new moon," when it does not appear. Piscat. --- He will not return for a long time, so that we need apprehend no danger from him. M.
↑ 20Proverbs 7:22
Ver. 22. Lamb. Prot. "fool to the correction of the stocks," (H.) or "like a shackle ( ábs. ) for the chastisement of a fool." Mont. --- Interpreters have read different words. C. --- Sinners who have given way to temptations, are as inconsiderate as oxen, or birds which hasten to their own ruin.
W.
↑ 22Proverbs 7:26
Ver. 26. Her. Solomon gave a melancholy proof of this, as well as David, and Amnon. C.
↑ 26Proverbs 7:27
Ver. 27. Death. There can be no precaution too great. c. ii. 18. C.
↑ 27License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses