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Pro_2:18 For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
Ver. 18. For her house inclineth unto death.] Terence calleth harlots Cruces, quia iuvenes macerent et offligant. Venery {a} is death’s best harbinger: Venus ab antiquis ëõóéìåëçò dicta. She provideth, saith one, {b} not for those that are already born, but for those that shall be born. Of Pope Paul the Fourth, that old goat, it went for a byword, Eum per eandem partem animam profudisse, per quam acceperat. Pope John the Twelfth being taken with an adulteress, was stabbed to death by her husband. {c} Alexander the Great and Otho the Third test their lives by their lusts. But how many, alas! by this means have lost their souls. Fleshly lusts, by a specialty, "fight against the soul." {1Pe_2:12} And nothing hath so much enriched hell, saith one, as beautiful faces.
And her paths unto the dead.] Heb., El Rhephaim, to the giants: {d} To that part of hell where those damned monsters are, together with those sensual Sodomites, who, giving themselves over to fornication, and "going after strange flesh, are thrown forth, ðñïêåéíôáé , proiecti sunt, for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire." {Jdg_1:7}
{a} The practice or pursuit of sexual pleasure; indulgence of sexual desire.
{b} Jacob. Revius.
{c} Barns.
{d} ðáñá ôù Aäç ìåôá ôùí ãçãåíùí - Sept.