Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Proverbs 2:19
None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
19. take they hold of ] Rather, reach, or (R.V.) attain unto.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
The words describe more than the fatal persistency of the sinful habit when once formed. A resurrection from that world of the dead to the paths of life is all but impossible.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 19. None that go unto her return again] There are very few instances of prostitutes ever returning to the paths of sobriety and truth; perhaps not one of such as become prostitutes through a natural propensity to debauchery. Among those who have been deceived, debauched, and abandoned, many have been reclaimed; and to such alone penitentiaries may be useful; to the others they may only be incentives to farther sinning. Rakes and debauchees are sometimes converted: but most of them never lay hold on the path of life; they have had their health destroyed, and never recover it. The original, chaiyim, means lives; not only the health of the body is destroyed, but the soul is ruined. Thus the unhappy man may be said to be doubly slain.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
None; few or none; an hyperbolical expression, used Isa 64:7.
That go unto her; that go to her house, or that lie with her, as this phrase is used, Gen 16:4; 30:4; Jos 2:13.
Return again, from her and from this wickedness, unto God. Adulterers and whoremongers are very rarely brought to repentance, but are generally hardened by the power and deceitfulness of that lust, and by Gods just judgment, peculiarly inflicted upon such persons, Heb 13:4. He alludes to the nature of corporal death, from which no man can without a miracle return to this life.
Of the paths of life; of those courses which lead to true and eternal life.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
19. that is, such as remainimpenitent (compare Ec 7:26).
paths of life (Ps16:11), opposed to paths unto the dead.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
None that go unto her return again,…. That is, those that commit whoredom with her return not again by repentance, and to a sober and chaste way of living, at least but very few; hence some of the ancients thought adultery was the unpardonable sin; but it is certain that some have been recovered by the power of divine grace, and have been brought to repentance for their impure manner of life, and have truly believed in Christ, and lived sober and godly lives afterwards; but, as the Targum adds, they do not return “in peace”, but with great distress of mind, remorse of conscience, and bitterness of soul; and these instances are rare; generally speaking, such as are ensnared by an adulterous woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are as bands, are held so fast by her that they seldom get out again, though some few may escape, Ec 7:26. The words may be rendered, “all that go into her z shall not return again”; no, very few of them. And it is a very rare thing, when men are fallen into idolatry, superstition, will worship, and heresy, that they are recovered out of this snare of the devil; there is a peradventure they may, but it is not often that they be loosed from it, 2Ti 2:25;
neither take they hold of the paths of life; Christ, and the ways of Christ, which lead to eternal life; few there be that find these paths and walk in them, Mt 7:14; and especially such as are drawn aside by an impure woman, they are held so fast by her alluring charms, and so bewildered by her art of deceiving, that they are like persons that are led out of their way, and cannot find it again.
z “omnes ingredientes eam”, Pagninus, Montanus.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Pro 2:19 None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
Ver. 19. None that go unto her return again. ] Some of the ancients have herehence concluded that adultery is an unpardonable sin; but “all manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men,” saith our Saviour, “save only the sin against the Holy Ghost.” Mat 12:31 True it is, that “a whore is a deep ditch, and a strange woman is a narrow pit”; – that Pro 23:27 “whoredom, and wine, and new wine take away the heart”; – that Hos 4:11 such are said to be “destitute of understanding,” and to have lost even the light of nature; Pro 6:32 Rom 1:28 to be “past feeling, and given up to a dead and dedolent disposition”; Eph 4:18-19 to be “impudent,” Jer 2:3 – wherefore also they are compared to dogs a Deu 23:18 2Sa 3:8 – and for the most part impenitent. Ecc 7:28 Grace, as one well observeth, is seated in the powers of nature. Now carnal sins disable nature, and so set us in a greater distance from grace, as taking away the heart, &c. Howbeit “all things are possible with God”; Mar 9:23 ; Mar 9:27 and though few have awakened out of this snare of the devil, yet some have, as David, and that woman in Luk 7:37 ; Luk 7:50 , lest any humbled sinners should despair.
a . – Hom.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
return again. Compare “rooted out”, Pro 2:22, with Isa 26:19.
take . . . hold = attain to.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
None: Psa 81:12, Ecc 7:26, Jer 13:23, Hos 4:14, Mat 19:24-26
take: Pro 4:18, Heb 6:18
Reciprocal: Jdg 16:21 – and put out Psa 16:11 – path Pro 5:5 – General Pro 6:32 – destroyeth Pro 7:27 – General Pro 9:18 – the dead Pro 21:16 – remain Act 2:28 – made