Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

Today we continue our progress through Proverbs and we're still in the dad's advice to his son.

He has more warnings about adultery. He wants these words to be in his son's line of sight and on his hands and in his heart.

All three of those areas, eyes, hands, and heart, are important aspects of walking in

holiness and purity.

If the sun has this wisdom at the forefront of these places,

he won't be drawn to the adultress.

By the way, it's easy to hear the words, the adult adultress and think of someone who's out to

intentionally seduce this young man and that's definitely possible but it's not

exclusive to that scenario it could be someone he seeks out and pursues as well.

Proverbs 7-8 talks about the young man going out at night and walking to her house.

She meets him on his way there, but he seems to go of his own volition. And as this particular woman lays

the flattery on thick, the fool falls for it. The dad warns his son repeatedly in all

these chapters that this is the path to death.

It's not a subtle warning.

He repeats it over and over using different language and even violent language throughout the

passage, just to make sure he gets the point across.

In Chapter 7, the Dad describes the adulterous as a loud woman who sidles up to the sun and

probably lowers her voice to seduce him in the streets. And in chapter 8, the dead illustrates another woman who also

cries aloud in the street. This is wisdom personified. She raises her voice to call out too.

She appeals to the fool and the simple tends

to listen to what she has to say.

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