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Proverbs 6:3
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Look at Solomon’s advice here. You see, it is a trap, it is a snare. She has trapped you, and that is what the world does, it traps us, and ensnares us. ‘Go humble thyself, and make sure thy friend’, or associate, or lover. It almost sounds as though the person is a decent fellow, but that is not what is intended. The Hebrew there translated ‘make sure’ is a very interesting term, and it really means pester the life out of. It is a compound expression, and it means literally, storm against, importune, assail, so as to make sure of the thing, and overcome the person. In other words, before it is too late, presumably before the money is spent, while there is a chance you can get out of this, do your utmost to persuade that adulteress to stop and to not spend that money, and get yourself off the hook.
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The application of this is simple. If you have started to go down this world's pathway, and you have started to feel its drawing power, and you have started to be trapped by covetous and selfish desires and its pleasures and so on, while there is time, before it is too late, before you are finally snared, get out, pull yourself free, do not take any rest, do not sleep, says Solomon.
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