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Schlachter Bibel
Sprüche 6:27
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Kann auch jemand ein Feuer im Busen behalten, daß seine Kleider nicht brennen?
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Job 31:9-12, Hosea 7:4-7, James 3:5
Reciprocal: Job 31:12 - General Proverbs 5:8 - General
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Can a man take fire in his bosom,.... A whore is compared to fire, and is so called by the poets o; and it is a saying of Pythagoras,
"it is a like thing to fall into fire and into a woman p;''
the Hebrew words אש, "esh", "fire", and אישה, "ishah", "a woman", have some affinity in sound; and the phrase of taking it "into the bosom" fitly expresses the impure embraces of a harlot;
and his clothes not be burned? he cannot, it is impossible; and equally vain is it to think that a man can commit whoredom and it not be known, or he not hurt by it in his name and substance, or in his body, soul, and life.
o Plauti Bacehides, Act. 4. Sc. 9. v. 15. "Accede ad ignem hunc", Terent. Eunuehus, Act. 1. Sc. 2. v. 5. p το εις πυρ και εις γυναικα, apud Maximum, Eclog. c. 39.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 6:27. Can a man take fire — These were proverbial expressions, the meaning of which was plain to every capacity.
