Proverbios 7:18

18 Ven, bebamos hasta el fondo la copa del amor;¡disfrutemos del amor hasta el amanecer!

Proverbios 7:18 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 7:18

Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning
Taking him by the hand, and pulling him along, she says, "come"; let us not stand here in the streets, but let us go within, and after supper to bed; and there enjoy ourselves, till "inebriated" with love, as the word F23 signifies: so the poet F24 speaks of "ebrios ocellos", "eyes drunk", that is, with love; and so continue till the morning light, the night being the fittest season for those works of darkness: this expresses the insatiableness of her lust; let us solace ourselves with loves;
mutual love, not lawful, but criminal; more properly lusts; denoting the abundance of it, and the pleasure promised in it, which is very short lived, and bitterness in the end.


FOOTNOTES:

F23 (hwrn) "inebriemur", Pagninus, Montanus, Mercerus, Piscator, Gejerus, Michaelis, Schultens.
F24 Catullus de Acme, Ep. 43. c. 11.

Proverbios 7:18 In-Context

16 Sobre la cama he tendidomulticolores linos egipcios.
17 He perfumado mi lechocon aroma de mirra, áloe y canela.
18 Ven, bebamos hasta el fondo la copa del amor;¡disfrutemos del amor hasta el amanecer!
19 Mi esposo no está en casa,pues ha emprendido un largo viaje.
20 Se ha llevado consigo la bolsa del dinero,y no regresará hasta el día de luna llena».
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