Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Proverbs 7:20
He hath taken a bag of money with him, [and] will come home at the day appointed.
20. a bag of money ] to cover his expenses for a considerable time.
day appointed ] Rather, fall moon. Comp. Psa 81:3, in the time appointed, A.V. (as here), but full moon, R.V.
“A fortnight later, as now it would seem to have been new moon when the nights are dark.” Nutt, in O. T. Comm. for English Readers.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 20. He hath taken] Literally, “The money bag he hath taken in his hand.” He is gone a journey of itinerant merchandising. This seems to be what is intended.
And will come home at the day appointed.] leyom hakkase, the time fixed for a return from such a journey. The Vulgate says, “at the full moon.” The Targum, “the day of the assembly.” In other words, He will return by the approaching festival.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
He hath taken a bag of money with him; which is an evidence that he designs to go far, and to stay a considerable time.
And will come home at the day appointed; so that we need not fear any surprisal.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
20. the day appointedperhaps,literally, “a full moon,” that is, a fortnight’s time(compare Pr 7:19).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
He hath taken a bag of money with him,…. Or, “in his hand” a; either for merchandise, as Gersom; or for defraying: the charges of his journey; and both suppose length of time: if for merchandise, it required time to purchase goods, and see them packed up and sent away; or if for his journey, since it was not a few pieces of money he put in his pocket to defray expenses, but a bag of it he carried in his hand, it shows that he should be out a considerable time;
[and] will come home at the day appointed; and not before: Aben Ezra interprets it, at the beginning of the month, at the new moon, when the moon is covered b, which Horace c calls “tricessima sabbata”: but rather it is to be understood of the full moon, as Aquila and the Vulgate Latin version render it; when it is light all night, and so a proper time for travelling home again. Gersom takes it to mean the beginning of the year, when the holy blessed God, parabolically speaking, sits upon a throne to judge the world in righteousness: the Targum calls it the day of the congregation; some fixed festival day, when the congregation meets together; and at such a festival, or appointed time, this good man had fixed for his return, and when, and not before, he would. This she says to remove all fears from the young man of being surprised and caught by her husband. There is an appointed time for Christ’s second coming, when he will certainly come, and not before; and which is supposed to be at a great distance of time: and therefore wicked men and seducers, and such as the apostate church of Rome make use of to encourage themselves in their wickedness, in hopes of impunity, put the evil day far away from them; but in the appointed time Christ will come, and call his servants to an account, good and bad.
a “in manu sua”, Pagninus, Montanus, Mercerus, Gejerus, Michaelis. b “in die plenae lunae”, V. L. Michaelis; “novilunii”, so some in Vatablus, Piscator; “ad diem interlunii”, Cocceius, Schultens. c Satirar. l. 1. Sat. 9. v. 69.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Pro 7:20. At the day appointed At the day of full-moon. Houbigant renders the clause, Nor will he return to his house before the full moon; which the woman plainly gives as a reason for removing all apprehensions and fears of detection from the simple youth whom she is soliciting to destruction.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Pro 7:20 He hath taken a bag of money with him, [and] will come home at the day appointed.
Ver. 20. He hath taken a bag of money. ] And so will not return in haste. Let not the children of this world be wiser than we: “Lay up treasure in heaven; provide yourselves bags that wax not old” Luk 12:33 Do as merchants, that being to travel into a far country, deliver their money here upon the exchange, that there they may receive it. Evagrius in Cedreuus bequeathed three hundred pound to the poor in his will; but took a bond beforehand of Synesius the bishop for the repayment of this in another life, according to the promise of our Saviour of a hundred fold advantage.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
the day appointed = the new moon.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
with him: Heb. in his hand
the day appointed: or, the new moon, 2Ch 2:4