SEV Biblia, Chapter 22:14
¶ Sima profunda es la boca de las extrañas; aquel contra el cual estuviere el SEÑOR airado, caerá en ella.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Proverbs 22:14
Verse 14. The mouth of strange women is a deep pit ] In chap. xxiii. 27, he says, A whore is a DEEP DITCH:, oud a strange woman is a NARROW PIT. The allusions in these three places are too plain to be misunderstood.
Virgil's hell has been adduced in illustration: ] - Sate sanguine Divum, Tros Anchisiade, facilis decensus Averni; Noctes atque dies patet atri janua Ditis: Sed revocare gradum, superasque evadere ad auras, HOC OPUS, hic labour est.
Pauci quos aequus amavit Jupiter, aut ardens evexit ad aethera virtus, Dis geniti potuere. VIRG. AEn, lib. vi., ver. 125.
"O glorious prince of brave Anchises' line! Great godlike hero! sprung from seed divine, Smooth lies the road to Pluto's gloomy shade; And hell's black gates for ever stand display'd: But 'tis a long unconquerable pain, To climb to these ethereal realms again.
The choice-selected few, whom favouring Jove, Or their own virtue, rais'd to heaven above, From these dark realms emerged again to day; The mighty sons of gods, and only they. PITT.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 14. The mouth of strange women [is] a deep pit , etc.] The mouth of harlots; the kisses of their mouth, their fair speech and flattering words, their amorous talk, and lascivious and wanton language, ensnare and draw unwary persons to commit lewdness with them, which bring them into a pit of ruin and destruction; a filthy one, and very deep, out of which it is not easy nor usual to be extricated: the allusion is to beasts taken in a pit dug for them; and these are as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed; he that is abhorred of the Lord shall fall therein ; who has been guilty of other sins, and such as have caused the Lord to abhor him, and therefore leaves him to fall into this: one sin not only leads on to another, but is the punishment of another; men are seldom guilty of this sin of whoredom, but who have been first abandoned to other vices very provoking to. God; (see Ecclesiastes 7:26). Jarchi interprets all this of idolatry; and it may be very well applied to the whore of Rome, and the harlots she is mother of; who, by her fair words and false doctrines, by her mouth speaking blasphemies and lies in hypocrisy, by her golden cup in her hand full of abomination and filthiness of fornication, and by her sorceries, have deceived many, and brought them into the pit of perdition and ruin: and these are such whose names are not written in the Lamb’s book of life; but are rejected of God, and given up to believe a lie, that they might be damned, ( Revelation 17:4,5,8 2 Thessalonians 2:11,12).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 14 - The vile sin of licentiousness commonly besots the mind beyon recovery.
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