4<\/strong>. Why<\/em>, &c.] Why art thou so wasted, O king’s son, morning by morning<\/strong>? His cousin Jonadab either lived in the same house with Amnon as his companion, or noticed his worn looks when he came to visit him at his morning levee.<\/p>\n From day to day, <\/B>Heb. from morning to morning<\/I>; for whereas in the day he had many diversions and refreshments, in the night he was pestered with tormenting thoughts and passions; the effects whereof appeared in his countenance in the morning. <\/P> Wilt thou not tell me, <\/B>thy sure friend and faithful servant, who am ready to advise and assist thee? <\/P> <\/p>\n 4. my brother Absalom’s sister<\/B>InEastern countries, where polygamy prevails, the girls are consideredto be under the special care and protection of their uterine brother,who is the guardian of their interests and their honor, even morethan their father himself (see on Ge34:6-25<\/span>). <\/P> 2Sa13:6-27<\/span>. HE DEFILESHER.<\/P><\/p>\n And he said unto him, why [art] thou, [being] the king’s son<\/strong>,<\/p>\n lean from day today<\/strong>?…. Or “morning by morning”, w; he was the king’s eldest son, heir to the crown, fed at his table, had everything to make him gay and cheerful, and yet pined away; his flesh wasted x, his countenance waxed wan and pale, and especially in the mornings; in the daytime he met with diversions which, in some measure, took off his thoughts from the object his mind was impressed with, but in the night season they were continually employed about it; so that he could have no rest and sleep, which made him look ruefully in the morning; and this man had a suspicion of his case, and therefore put this and the following question to him:<\/p>\n wilt thou not tell me<\/strong>? who am so nearly related to thee, and who have such a particular value and affection for thee:<\/p>\n and Amnon said unto him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister<\/strong>; he does not call her his sister, but Absalom’s sister, to lessen his sin of unlawful love to her, which, being thus closely pressed, and by a friend, he could not conceal.<\/p>\n w , “in mane in mane”, Montanus. x “Fecit amor maciem —–“. Ovid Metamorph. l. 11. Fab. 11. v. 793.<\/p>\n (4) And he said unto him, Why art thou, being the king’s son, lean from day to day? wilt thou not tell me? And Amnon said unto him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister. (5) And Jonadab said unto him, Lay thee down on thy bed, and make thyself sick: and when thy father cometh to see thee, say unto him, I pray thee, let my sister Tamar come, and give me meat, and dress the meat in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it at her hand. (6) So Amnon lay down, and made himself sick: and when the king was come to see him, Amnon said unto the king, I pray thee, let Tamar my sister come, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat at her hand. (7) Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to thy brother Amnon’s house, and dress him meat. (8) So Tamar went to her brother Amnon’s house; and he was laid down. And she took flour, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes. (9) And she took a pan, and poured them out before him; but he refused to eat. And Amnon said, Have out all men from me. And they went out every man from him. (10) And Amnon said unto Tamar, Bring the meat into the chamber, that I may eat of thine hand. And Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother. (11) And when she had brought them unto him to eat, he took hold of her, and said unto her, Come lie with me, my sister. (12) And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly. (13) And I, whither shall I cause my shame to go? and as for thee, thou shalt be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, I pray thee, speak unto the king; for he will not withhold me from thee. (14) Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice: but, being stronger than she, forced her, and lay with her.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n I do not think it necessary to make any long comment upon what is here related. It forms but the same melancholy subject of the breaking out of our corrupt and fallen nature, only diversified according to the various passions of different men. Reader! it hath never been yet fully pondered, nor perhaps ever will this side the grave, what a deadly poison was infused into human nature by the bite of the serpent at the fall. And therefore, from the same cause, never till then will be thoroughly known the infinite remedy procured us by the Person and Offices of the Lord Jesus Christ. What an awful example is here of a deep laid, diabolical scheme, by a brother against the chastity of his own sister!<\/p>\n 2Sa 13:4 And he said unto him, Why [art] thou, [being] the king’s son, lean from day to day? wilt thou not tell me? And Amnon said unto him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.<\/p>\n Ver. 4. Why art thou, being the king’s son?] And therefore needest not want for anything. But in addition Amnon should have considered, that in maxima libertate minima licentia,<\/em> that although the king’s son, yet he should not have desired or done anything unbeseeming his dignity; and Jonadab, had he been a friend indeed, would have told him as much. Antigonus, being invited to a place where a notable harlot was to be present, asked counsel of Menedemus what he should do: he bade him only remember that he was a king’s son. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lean from day to day.<\/strong> ] Heb., Thin every morning; sc., <\/em> For want of sleep, through thoughtful anxieties by night. <\/p>\n “ Invidia vel amore vigil torquebere.<\/em> ” – Horat.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n Plato saith, He that is in love liveth in the body of another, but dieth in his own; whilst the whole man macrescit, marcescit et contabescit ex amoris vehementia.<\/em> Hence Apollonius Tyanaeus the philosopher, when the king of Babylon – devising how to punish a certain young courtier who had lain with a concubine of his – asked him what was the greatest of all tortures, answered, that he could not punish him worse than by suffering him to live in the fire of lust, which would secretly but certainly devour him. a<\/em> Hence that of the poet, <\/p>\n “ Tristatur, pallet, non dormit, nil edit, ardet,<\/p>\n Nec tamen aegrotat Calliodorus: amat. ”<\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Wilt thou not tell me?<\/em><\/strong> ] Who can both keep counsel and give counsel. But what counsel gave he other than what Julia gave Caracalla, her son-in-law, when he said, O si liceret <\/em> Oh that I might lie with thee! She impudently answered, Si libet licet: imperator dat leges, non aceipit,<\/em> You may if you will: for an emperor giveth laws to others, he taketh none himself. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n I love Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.] He saith not, My sister, for shame. Sin is a blushful business. This filthy love is the disease which the physicians call E , and is by one not unfitly compared to that shirt which Clytemnestra put upon her husband Agamemnon; or to those asps b<\/em> which Cleopatra applied to her body to suck out her lifeblood; or to those Charonean ditches, mortiferum spiritum exhalantes,<\/em> that send out a deadly air. Good, therefore, is the tragedian’s counsel, <\/p>\n “ Recedat a te, temere ne credas, Amor:<\/p>\n Florem decoris singuli ne carpent dies. ”<\/p>\n – Sen. in Octav.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n a<\/em> Agnus curio,<\/em> apud Plaut.<\/em> Macilentus, quasi curis confectus.<\/em> Spec. Hum Vit., <\/em> p. 125. <\/p>\n b<\/em> Plin., lib. ii. cap. 93.<\/p>\n Why art: 1Ki 21:7, Est 5:13, Est 5:14, Luk 12:32 <\/p>\n lean: Heb. thin <\/p>\n from day to day: Heb. morning by morning, I love. Isa 3:9, Jer 8:12, Mic 7:3 <\/p>\n my brother: Lev 18:9, Lev 20:17 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Gen 40:7 – Wherefore Num 11:6 – General 1Ki 21:4 – And he laid him 1Ki 21:5 – Why is thy spirit Est 2:4 – the thing 2Co 7:10 – the sorrow<\/p>\n And he said unto him, Why [art] thou, [being] the king’s son, lean from day to day? wilt thou not tell me? And Amnon said unto him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister. 4. Why, &c.] Why art thou so wasted, O king’s son, morning by morning? 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