Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Proverbs 7:27

Her house [is] the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

27. the way ] Lit. the ways. The plural may perhaps be used here, and in the similar phrase, the ways of death (Pro 14:12, Pro 16:25), to denote that however the paths may differ, the end is the same.

hell ] Heb. Sheol. See Pro 5:5, note, and comp. Pro 2:18.

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Pro 7:27

Her house is the way to hell.

The way to hell

An energetic expression. It is not the place itself, but the way to it. In this ease what is the difference between the way and the destination? The one is as the other, so much so that he who has entered the way may reckon upon it as a fatal certainty that he will accomplish the journey and be plunged into the chamber of death. No man means to go the whole length. A mans will is not destroyed in an instant; it is taken from him, as it were, little by little, and almost imperceptibly; he imagines that he is as strong as ever, and says that he will go out and shake himself as at other times, not knowing that the spirit of might has gone from him. Is there any object on earth more pathetic than that of a man who has lost his power of resistance to evil, and is dragged on, an unresisting victim, whithersoever the spirit of perdition may desire to take him? It is true that the young man can plead the power of fascination; all that music, and colour, and blandishment, and flattery can do has been done: the cloven foot has been most successfully concealed; the speech has been all garden, and paradise, and sweetness, and joy; the word hell, or perdition, has not been so much as mentioned. This is what is meant by seduction: leading a man out of himself, and from himself, onward and onward, by carefully graded processes, until fascination has accomplished its work, and bound the consenting soul in eternal bondage. (J. Parker, D. D.)

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Verse 27. Her house is the way to hell] sheol, the pit, the grave, the place of the dead, the eternal and infernal world. And they who, through such, fall into the grave, descend lower, into the chambers of death; the place where pleasure is at an end, and illusion mocks no more.

Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible

To hell; or; to the grave; for the word is used in both senses; and this sense seems better to agree both with the foregoing and following words. Although, without repentance, hell will certainly be their portion, and their first death will be followed by the second.

Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole

Her house is the way to hell,…. Or “ways” p; the broad highway to it; either to the grave, as “sheol” often signifies; or to hell itself, the place of the damned: to go into her house, and commit wickedness with her, is to take a step to destruction, a large stride towards hell; and, if grace prevent not, will bring a man thither. Who would go into such a house, and much less dwell there, which is the very suburbs of hell?

going down to the chambers of death; to enter her chamber, to step into her bed, howsoever decked and adorned, entertaining and inviting it is, not only leads to the chambers of the grave, as the Targum; but to the lowest and innermost parts of hell; the apartments of the second death, the lot of all unclean and idolatrous persons, without repentance and faith. The Phoenicians called Pluto, the god of hell, by the name of Moth q, a word similar to this used here; and so those chambers are no other than the chambers of hell. Plautus r also calls the gate of a whore’s house the gate of hell; which agrees with the first clause of the verse.

p “viae”, Pagninus, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, &c. q Sanchoniatho apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 1. p. 38. r “Januam hane orci”, Bacchides, Act. 3. Sc. 1. v. 1.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

27. Her house is the way to hell , ( sheol,) the infernal world. It is the way par excellence the surest and most direct road to perdition. Comp. Pro 2:18; Pro 9:18; Pro 16:25. Miller renders, “The ways to sheol are at her house.”

Commentators generally regard this woman as the representative of the adulteress. It is more probable that she is the type of dissolute women in general. Her tricks and ways are rather those of the open harlot than of the secret adulteress. True, she speaks of the man of the house as being absent, as if she had a husband, but this may be only a specimen of the artifice commonly used to give assurance of safety.

Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

REFLECTIONS.

MY soul! pause over this chapter. Behold what a strong and affecting representation it holds forth of the carnal, graceless, and ungodly. In every state, and in every stage of life, they are the same. Young persons, from the heat of youth, and corruption of nature, are most exposed to the awful ruin here set forth; but all periods of life are open to the particular and special temptations of it. And is this human nature altogether! Are such portraits of it taken from life? Do all prefer the momentary enjoyment of the body, to the everlasting welfare of the soul! Can nothing but fleshly lusts which war against the soul satisfy them? And is it, my soul, a most certain and unquestionable truth, that they that are in the flesh cannot please God. Pause, my soul! and in contemplating such a picture of human life, see whether what Paul saith of the Corinthians doth not correspond, to thy case and circumstances. ..and such were some of you.

Lord! give me to hear and feel what the close of this sweet chapter utters, and from henceforth to attend to the words of my God. And oh! ye young men, see, from what is here set forth, the danger to which you are exposed, and flee youthful lusts which war against the soul. I have written unto you young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abideth in you. Oh! think how blessed it must be to re member the Creator in the days of youth. And what a blessedness in having Christ for a portion, that the age of life may be accompanied with grace, and the knowledge and enjoyment of Jesus become the portion forever.

Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)

Pro 7:27 Her house [is] the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

Ver. 27. Her house is the way to Hell. ] The shortest cut to utter destruction. This, if well believed, would make the young man stop or step back, as if he had trod upon a serpent.

“ Sed vivunt homines tanquam mors nulla sequatur:

Aut velut infernus fabula vana foret. ”

Going down to the chambers of death. ] Both temporal and eternal. Lo, those hosts that welcome men into their inn with smiling countenance will cut their throats in their beds. The syrens are said to live in green meadows, and to have by them ever a heap of dead men’s bones. a

a Natal. Comes.

Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)

hell = the grave. Hebrew. sheol. App-35.

chambers = inner chambers. An explanation of Sheol.

Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics

hell

Heb. “Sheol,” (See Scofield “Hab 2:5”)

Fuente: Scofield Reference Bible Notes

Pro 2:18, Pro 2:19, Pro 5:5, Pro 9:18, Ecc 7:26

Reciprocal: Jdg 16:16 – she pressed Jdg 16:19 – she made Pro 13:20 – but Pro 15:24 – that Pro 21:16 – remain Pro 31:3 – strength Mat 7:13 – that Luk 16:23 – in hell

Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge