John Gill's Exposition on Proverbs 31:17

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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She girdeth her loins with strength, etc.] Showing her readiness to every good work; and with what cheerfulness, spirit, and resolution, she set about it, and with what dispatch and expedition she performed it: the allusion is to the girding and tucking up of long garments, wore in the eastern countries, when any work was set about in earnest, which required dispatch; (see <421708>Luke 17:8 12:35); the strength of creatures being in their loins, (<184016>Job 40:16); the loins are sometimes put for strength, as in Plautusf957; and the sense is much the same with what follows; and strengtheneth her arms; does all she finds to do with all her might and main, as the church does; not in her own strength, but in the strength of Christ; to whom she seeks for it, and in whose strength she goes forth about her business; by whom the arms of her hands are made strong, even by the mighty God of Jacob; and because she thus applies to him for it, she is said to do it herself, (<014924>Genesis 49:24 <500413>Philippians 4:13); here she plays the man, and acts the manly part, (<461613>1 Corinthians 16:13).

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