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Proverbs 7:6
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Now Solomon begins this long parable to the end of the chapter. ‘For at the window of my house I looked through my casement’, or my lattice as you might more properly say today. I looked through that window. Incidentally, this is a strange window because it is a window through which Solomon can see the entire event which now takes place. It is a window through which he can see round corners, he can see in the dark and he can see into rooms of a distant house to observe what is going on. You can see we are in the language of a parable. In other words, such a window as this is not Solomon's literal window; it is a graphic way of describing the view of God. Only God can see like that. Solomon speaks in the first person: For at the window of my house I looked through my lattice - and what is he going to see? He is going to see a scene played out which will describe our own vulnerability to sin.
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The young man has no idea that he is being watched. Those who commit sin do so in secret. Were they aware that another eye was watching them, they would not be able to sin with the same freedom. It is the eye of the Lord on them that they most ought to consider, for what the Lord sees he will not forget, and we must give account of all at the last day.
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