Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Proverbs 5:15

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Proverbs 5:15 - 5:15

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Proverbs 5:15 - 5:15

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5:2 - 5:2
5:3 - 5:3
5:4 - 5:4
5:5 - 5:5
5:6 - 5:6
5:8 - 5:8
5:9 - 5:9
5:10 - 5:10
5:11 - 5:11
5:12 - 5:12
5:14 - 5:14
5:15 - 5:15
5:17 - 5:17
5:18 - 5:18
5:19 - 5:19
5:21 - 5:21
5:22 - 5:22
5:23 - 5:23

By figures, in which well, cistern, and fountain [Pro 5:15, Pro 5:18] represent the wife, and rivers of waters [Pro 5:16] the children, men are exhorted to constancy and satisfaction in lawful conjugal enjoyments. In Pro 5:16, fountains (in the plural) rather denote the produce or waters of a spring, literally, “what is from a spring,” and corresponds with “rivers of waters.”