Comments on: Proverbs 7

By: Dad

Dad — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 11:08:00 +0000

I'm glad to find out that your reading of a 700+ page book was probably part of an assignment and not because you had loads of free time on your hands.

I was getting concerned about the quality of the school you were attending and whether you would be fit for anything afterwards, but I guess those concerns can be laid aside.

As a general response how many of us do 'sin' even though we know better? Oh, as Paul writes, who shall deliver us for this body of death?

Yes, the world is sexually orinantated, but what about the church? Isaiah 56 is interesting, last's weeks study passage, so I am a sort of expert on that chapter for a couple of days, speaks of people whom God is saving, from around the world, and the supposed 'prophets' of Israel. It is interesing to examine what the interests (where the heart is) of each of these groups.

And even if we have not literally followed this lady to her bed, what about the heart and mind, are we clean/holy there? We are without hope?

May God's grace abound even greater than our sins.

Al

By: ja

ja — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 22:33:00 +0000

A passage familiar to me from my High School Sunday School Class. I read it very differently now than I did then. In particular, I empathise with the young man and I think the reader is meant to do so as well. He may be “lacking sense” but he is not especially stupid or evil. He could stand in for almost any one of us. We are given a hint of his normalcy when we read “many a victim has she laid low, and all her slain are a mighty throng.” This indeed is wisdom literature but it is wisdom literature that underscores a more general truth about the extent of human depravity and fallenness. Reason fails. We sometimes find that we cannot discriminate right from wrong. In many more instances, however, we know exactly what actions are wrong and yet choose them anyway. As Augustine writes about sin: “It was bitter and foul and detestable–and I loved it.” And Augustine was even a saint! In all seriousness though, I find it far easier to follow the path of the young man than to heed the exhortation to the contrary.