Mishle 7:15

15 Al ken (therefore) came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.

Mishle 7:15 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 7:15

Therefore came I forth to meet thee
Having so much good cheer at home, and none to eat of it with her; and having so fond and affectionate a regard to this young man, as she pretended; he being the only person in her thoughts, whom she hoped to meet with, and whose company she desired, and his only; though, had she met any other, she would have said the same things to them. Aben Ezra, upon ( Proverbs 7:14 ) , says, she told him lies; probably that might be true; but this was no doubt a lie; and it is no unusual thing for the whore of Rome to speak lies in hypocrisy, ( 1 Timothy 4:2 ) ; diligently to seek thy face;
which of all faces she desired to see, being most lovely to her; with the comeliness of which she was exceedingly taken and ravished, and got up betimes in the morning, as the word ^F14 signifies, even before day, to seek for him; and I have found thee;
which she speaks with a rapture and ecstasy of joy; blessing herself on this happy occasion, that she should come out so opportunely, and find him so quickly; intimating, that it was a kind providence, and that the thing was of God: so conversions to the antichristian church, which are the artifice of hell, are ascribed to the divine Being.

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FOOTNOTES:

F14 (rxvl) "ad quaerendum mane", Montanus.

Mishle 7:15 In-Context

13 So she caught hold of him, and kissed him, and with a brazen ponem said unto him,

14 I have zivkhei shelamim vowed; this yom have I payed my neder.

15 Al ken (therefore) came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.

16 I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with a bedspread of fine linen of Mitzrayim.

17 I have perfumed my mishkav (bed) with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.