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John Gill's Exposition on Proverbs 23:28
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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She also lieth in wait as [for] a prey, etc.] At the door of her house, in the corner of the streets, in the dark of the night; laying her snares, and spreading her nets, for unwary persons, to make a prey of their virtue and of their money. Or, “as [a man of] prey”f636; a thief and robber, so Gersom; thus she watches and takes all opportunities to seize on persons, and rob them of their substance, health, and credit; or rather “as [a beast of] prey”; ravenous, devouring, and insatiable; so the Targum, “as a beast ravening, she lies in wait with her eyes;” and increaseth the transgressors among men; there is none that occasions wore sin, or makes more sinners, than a whorish woman; swearing, lying, drunkenness, thieving, stealing, housebreaking, robbing on the highway, etc. are the sins she leads into. Or, “increaseth treacherous”f637 persons; to God, to their king, to their wives, to their master’s; and all that they may consume, what they can get by perfidious practices, upon them, or, “perfidious persons among men, she adds “to herself”f638;” she gets a parcel of abandoned wretches about her, whom she employs as her panders for her lust, or as bullies to spoil her gallants of their substance, or murder them for the sake of it.
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