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Proverbios 6:27
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¿Puede un hombre poner fuego en su seno sin que arda su ropa?
Tomar el hombre fuego en su seno, sin que su vestidura se queme?
Tomar el hombre fuego en su seno, sin que sus vestidos se quemen?
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.
