Nipate
Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: GeeMail on January 16, 2015, 11:29:32 AM
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http://www.absg.adventist.org/2015/1Q/TE/PDFs/ETQ115_03.pdf
The Threat of Death
Most people don’t think of death when they sin; they have other
things on their minds, usually the immediate gratification and pleasure
that they derive from their sin. It doesn’t help, either, that popular culture often extols adultery and other iniquities. In contrast, the book of Proverbs places sin in the right perspective, a view echoed many years later by Paul: “The wages of sin is death”
(Rom. 6:23)
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Read Proverbs 7:22, 23
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What makes the adulterer vulnerable to the threat of death?
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The one who goes “after her” is described as someone who has lost
his personality and will. He is no longer thinking. The word immediately suggests that he does not give himself time for much reflection.
He is compared to an ox who “goes to the slaughter,” to a fool who
goes to “the correction of the stocks,” and to a bird who “hastens to the
snare.” None of them realize that their life is threatened.
Read Proverbs 7:26, 27. What makes the immoral woman lethal?
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It’s possible that the woman here depicts more than a “mere” adulterer. In fact, she represents values opposite to wisdom. Solomon uses
this metaphor to warn his pupil against any form of evil. The risk is
huge, for this woman does not just wound; she kills, and her power is
such that she has slain even the strongest of men. In other words, others before you, stronger than you, have not been able to survive in her hands. The universal language of this passage clearly suggests that the biblical author is speaking about humankind in general. (The Hebrew word sheol in the text has nothing to do with “hell,” as commonly thought; it designates the place where the dead now are: the grave.)
In the end, the point is that sin, whether adultery or something else,
leads to annihilation, the opposite of the eternal life that God wants us
all to have through Jesus Christ.
No wonder, as we said in Sabbath’s introduction, the language is
strong—we are dealing, literally, with matters of life and death.
Think of some “strong” people who have fallen in a big way. Why
should this make you tremble for yourself? What is your only protection?
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It’s possible that the woman here depicts more than a “mere” adulterer. In fact, she represents values opposite to wisdom. Solomon uses
this metaphor to warn his pupil against any form of evil.
DB
Since this little bit sums up the whole gist of your topic, I will attempt to address it. I think the woman here in the text is just that “woman” who engages in adultery. According to the dictionary “Adultery is extramarital sex that is considered objectionable on social, religious, moral or legal grounds.” Incidents of adultery are written all over the bible and most of them with very bad outcomes. Starting from Abraham, He was the father of ALL nations. When he sired with his maid servants to continue the blood line because his wife was unable to conceive…….it’s the reasons nations are still warring with one another to date. The price for such is just too high.
Then there is David who stole someone’s wife and ended up opening a whole lot of other issues in his household….. he lost a child, his son slept with his sister, just to have another brother kill that son. Before that woman, David’s household had been sort of peaceful. I could go on and on