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John Gill's Exposition on Proverbs 7:18

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning, etc.] Taking him by the hand, and pulling him along, she says, “come”; let us not stand here in the streets, but let us go within, and after supper to bed; and there enjoy ourselves, till “inebriated” with love, as the wordf189 signifies: so the poetf190 speaks of “ebrios ocellos”, “eyes drunk”, that is, with love; and so continue till the morning light, the night being the fittest season for those works of darkness: this expresses the insatiableness of her lust; let us solace ourselves with loves; mutual love, not lawful, but criminal; more properly lusts; denoting the abundance of it, and the pleasure promised in it, which is very short lived, and bitterness in the end.
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