Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Proverbs 7:15
Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
Diligently to seek thy face; as not being able to take any pleasure in my feast without thy company.
I have found thee, by a happy providence of God complying with my desires.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
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 Pr 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, 1Ti 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 n 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.
n “ad quaerendum mane”, Montanus.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
15. Came I to meet thee She either knew who he was, or pretended to do so. She counted herself happy in finding the very man she was seeking!
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Pro 7:15 Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
Ver. 15. Therefore came I forth. ] As having much good cheer at home, as at all peace offerings they had. Gluttony is the gallery that lustfulness walks through. a
Diligently to seek thy face.
And I have found thee.
a Sine cerere et libero friget Venus.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Reciprocal: Jer 7:10 – come
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Pro 7:15-20. Therefore came I forth to meet thee As not being able to take any pleasure in my feast without thy company; and I have found thee By a happy providence of God complying with my desires, to my great joy, I have found thee speedily and most opportunely. Thus this wicked woman pretended that she came forth on purpose to meet this youth, from a peculiar affection, as if she had had a prior acquaintance and intimacy with him. I have decked my bed, &c. She desires to inflame his lusts by the mention of the bed, and by its ornaments and perfumes. The good man is not at home Whom she does not call her husband, lest the mention of that name should awaken his conscience or discretion. He hath taken a bag of money with him Which is an evidence he designs to go far, and to stay a considerable time; and will come home at the day appointed Or, at the day of full moon, as Dr. Waterland translates , Houbigant renders the clause, Nor will he return to his house before the full moon. The woman plainly gives this as a reason for removing all apprehensions and fears of detection from the simple youth she is soliciting to destruction.