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Példabeszédek 7:26
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Proverbs 6:33, Judges 16:21, 2 Samuel 3:6-8, 2 Samuel 3:27, 2 Samuel 12:9-11, 1 Kings 11:1, 1 Kings 11:2, Nehemiah 13:26, 1 Corinthians 10:8, 2 Corinthians 12:21, 1 Peter 2:11
Reciprocal: Judges 16:16 - she pressed Judges 16:19 - she made Proverbs 21:16 - remain Proverbs 31:3 - strength Jeremiah 18:17 - the day
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For she hath cast down many wounded,.... Wounded in their name, character, and reputation; in their bodies by diseases; and in their souls by guilt, shame, and horror, through a compliance with her sinful lusts: these she "cast down" from the honours they were possessed of, from the health they enjoyed, and from the peace and tranquillity of mind they formerly felt within them. And not a single person, as the young man instanced in, or a few only, but "many"; great multitudes, hundreds and thousands, and those not weak, and foolish, and inconstant, as he might be thought to be; but such as were "great" m and mighty, as the word also signifies; men of great riches, and wisdom, and courage; as soldiers n, mighty men of war, such as wound and kill others; which seems the true sense of the word here used: and therefore none ought to trust in themselves, nor trust themselves in her company, nor in the least decline to her ways; and especially such as are weak and unskilful, and ignorant of her devices, as the "children" here addressed;
yea, many strong [men] have been slain by her; men famous for martial exploits, as Samson and others, have been overcome by her: some of great fortitude of mind have not been able to withstand her, she has prevailed over them; and others of robust constitutions have been weakened by diseases, contracted through incontinency with her; and some have suffered death by her means, either from her husband, or her gallants, or the civil magistrate: and of these there have been "innumerable" instances; so the word o for "strong men" sometimes signifies; and so it is here rendered in the Septuagint and Arabic versions, "and innumerable are they whom she has slain". All the world have wondered after the whore of Rome; kings of the earth and mighty men have committed fornication with her; high and low, rich and poor, have been ruined by her; thousands have gone to hell by her means; and some of the sycophants of Rome have even said, that if the pope of Rome should send thousands to hell, of which they seem themselves to be conscious, no one should say to him, What dost thou?
m רבים "multos magnosque", Gejerus. n See Dr. Kennicott's Dissert. 1. p. 110. o עצמים αναριθμητοι, Sept. so Arab. "numerosi", Junius Tremellius, Piscator, Amama, Cocceius, Michaelis, Schultens so Bootius, Animadv. l. 4. c. 11. s. 2.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The house of the harlot is now likened to a field of battle strewn with the corpses of the many slain.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 7:26. For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her. — That is, such like women have been the ruin of many. חללים chalalim, which we render wounded, also signifies soldiers or men of war; and עצמים atsumim, which we render strong men, may be translated heroes. Many of those who have distinguished themselves in the field and in the cabinet have been overcome and destroyed by their mistresses. History is full of such examples.