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Spreuken 7:18

Listen to Spreuken 7:18
18 Kom, laat ons dronken worden van minnen tot den morgen toe; laat ons ons vrolijk maken in grote liefde.

Spreuken 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.
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Spreuken 7:18 In-Context

16 Ik heb mijn bedstede met tapijtsieraad toegemaakt, met uitgehouwen werken, met fijn linnen van Egypte;
17 Ik heb mijn leger met mirre, aloe en kaneel welriekende gemaakt;
18 Kom, laat ons dronken worden van minnen tot den morgen toe; laat ons ons vrolijk maken in grote liefde.
19 Want de man is niet in zijn huis, hij is een verren weg getogen;
20 Hij heeft een bundel gelds in zijn hand genomen; ten bestemden dage zal hij naar zijn huis komen.
The Dutch Staten Vertaling translation is in the public domain.

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