Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadJohn Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 2:19 - 2:19
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
Pro_2:19 None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
Ver. 19. None that go unto her return again.] Some of the ancients have herehence concluded that adultery is an unpardonable sin; but "all manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men," saith our Saviour, "save only the sin against the Holy Ghost." {Mat_12:31} True it is, that "a whore is a deep ditch, and a strange woman is a narrow pit"; - that {Pro_23:27} "whoredom, and wine, and new wine take away the heart"; - that {Hos_4:11} such are said to be "destitute of understanding," and to have lost even the light of nature; {Pro_6:32 Rom_1:28} to be "past feeling, and given up to a dead and dedolent disposition"; {Eph_4:18-19} to be "impudent," {Jer_2:3} - wherefore also they are compared to dogs {a} {Deu_23:18 2Sa_3:8} - and for the most part impenitent. {Ecc_7:28} Grace, as one well observeth, is seated in the powers of nature. Now carnal sins disable nature, and so set us in a greater distance from grace, as taking away the heart, &c. Howbeit "all things are possible with God"; {Mar_9:23; Mar_9:27} and though few have awakened out of this snare of the devil, yet some have, as David, and that woman in Luk_7:37; Luk_7:50, lest any humbled sinners should despair.
{a} êõíïò ïììáô å÷ùí . - Hom.