The mouth of strange women [is] a deep pit
The mouth of harlots; the kisses of their mouth, their fair
speech and flattering words, their amorous talk, and lascivious
and wanton language, ensnare and draw unwary persons to commit
lewdness with them, which bring them into a pit of ruin and
destruction; a filthy one, and very deep, out of which it is not
easy nor usual to be extricated: the allusion is to beasts taken
in a pit dug for them; and these are as natural brute beasts,
made to be taken and destroyed; he that is abhorred of the
Lord shall fall therein;
who has been guilty of other sins, and such as have caused the
Lord to abhor him, and therefore leaves him to fall into this:
one sin not only leads on to another, but is the punishment of
another; men are seldom guilty of this sin of whoredom, but who
have been first abandoned to other vices very provoking to. God;
see ( Ecclesiastes
7:26 ) . Jarchi interprets all this of idolatry; and it may
be very well applied to the whore of Rome, and the harlots she is
mother of; who, by her fair words and false doctrines, by her
mouth speaking blasphemies and lies in hypocrisy, by her golden
cup in her hand full of abomination and filthiness of
fornication, and by her sorceries, have deceived many, and
brought them into the pit of perdition and ruin: and these are
such whose names are not written in the Lamb's book of life; but
are rejected of God, and given up to believe a lie, that they
might be damned, ( Revelation
17:4 Revelation
17:5 Revelation
17:8 ) ( 2
Thessalonians 2:11 2
Thessalonians 2:12 ) .