Proverbs 2 - A Practical Exposition

It is a great happiness for young people to escape the snares of the harlot, in which so many have been entangled and lost. A true love to the Word of God is eminently fitted to secure such a happiness. There is no viler object in nature than an adulteress. Her beauty is but a jewel of gold in a swine's snout. Though born and baptised in a Christian land, she is to be looked upon as a heathen woman and a stranger; and as self-made brutes are greater monsters than natural brute beasts, so baptised heathens are by far the worst of pagans. Her words may be sweet and soft to the inexperienced ear of a thoughtless youth, but she is only flattering with her lips. Honey and milk seem to be under her tongue, but it is the cruel venom of dragons.