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Selected Verse: Proverbs 23:33 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Pr 23:33 |
King James |
Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| The moral effects: it inflames passion (Gen 19:31, Gen 19:35), lays open the heart, produces insensibility to the greatest dangers, and debars from reformation, under the severest sufferings. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Thine eyes shall behold strange women - Evil concupiscence is inseparable from drunkenness. Mr. Herbert shows these effects well: -
He that is drunken may his mother kill,Big with his sister: he hath lost the reins;
Is outlawed by himself. All kinds of illDid, with his liquor, slide into his veins.
The drunkard forfeits man; and doth divestAll worldly right, save what he hath by beast.
Herbert's Poems - The Church Porch. |
35 And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
31 And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth: