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Pro_5:11 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
Ver. 11. And thou mourn at the last.] Heb., And thou roar; as being upon the rack of an evil conscience, and in the suburbs of hell, as it were: while "the just Lord" {Zep_3:5} makes thee, even here, possess the sins of thy youth, and writes bitter things against thee. The word signifies, To roar as a lion, or as the sea, {a} or as the devil doth. For the devils believe and tremble, or roar. {Jam_2:19} Grecians ascribe the original, öñéóóïõóé , to the roaring of the sea. {b}
When thy flesh and thy body.] By the word here rendered body, there are those who understand the radical humour, the natural moisture that maintains life, and is much impaired by this sensual sin. {c} Avicenna doubted not to say, that the emission of a little seed more than the body could well bear, was a great deal more hurtful than the loss of forty times so much blood. Gouts, palsies, epilepsies, &c., oft follow upon this sin: but the French disease is the natural fruit of it, such as will stick by men when their best friends forsake them. "Jezebel is cast into a bed, and they that commit adultery with her, into great tribulation." {Rev_2:20} The Popish libidinous {d} clergy are smitten with ulcers. {Rev_16:11} Their pope, Paul the Fourth, died ex nimio veneris usu, saith the historian, {e} by wasting his strength in filthy pleasure, as the flame consumeth the candle.
{a} öñéî est maris agitatio.
{b} Hom. Iliad. H. vide Eustath.
{c} Venus ab antiquis ëõóéìåëçò dicta.
{d} Of persons, their lives, actions, desires: Given to, full of, or characterized by lust or lewdness; lustful, lecherous, lewd.
{e} Runius De Vit. Pontif.