Rashi
Jewish
1040–1105
“suddenly Heb. כחתף, suddenly. and she will increase the faithless among men She increases in Israel those who are faithless to God. He is referring to apostasy.”
From the early Church Fathers to now.
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“She lieth in wait in the way as a robber, and him whom she shall see unwary, she will kill.”
“suddenly Heb. כחתף, suddenly. and she will increase the faithless among men She increases in Israel those who are faithless to God. He is referring to apostasy.”
“She also lieth in wait as for a prey,.... At the door of her house, in the corner of the streets, in the dark of the night; laying her snares, and spreading her nets, for unwary persons, to make a prey of their virtue and of their money. Or, "as a man of prey" (k); a thief and robber, so Gersom; thus she watches and takes all opportunities to seize on persons, and rob them of their substance, health, and credit; or rather "as a beast of prey"; ravenous, devouring, and insatiable; so the Targum, "as a beast ravening, she lies in wait with her eyes;'' and increaseth the transgressors among men; there is none that occasions wore sin, or makes more sinners, than a whorish woman; swearing, lying, drunkenness, thieving, stealing, housebreaking, robbing on the highway, &c. are the sins she leads into. Or, "increaseth treacherous" (l) persons; to God, to their king, to their wives, to their master's; and all that they may consume, what they can get by perfidious practices, upon them, or, "perfidious persons among men, she adds "to herself" (m);'' she gets a parcel of abandoned wretches about her, whom she employs as her panders for her lust, or as bullies to spoil her gallants of their substance, or murder them for the sake of it. (k) "tanquam vir praedae", Vatablus; "ut praedator", Mercerus, Gejerus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; "ut raptor", Cocceius; "velut praedo", Michaelis; "ut harpago", Schultens. (l) "perfidos", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Schultens. (m) "adjungitque sibi", Tigurine version.”
“Him. Protestants, “increaseth the transgressors among men,” (Haydock) and like a harpy, kills all whom she can entrap.”
“increaseth . . . transgressors-- (Pro 5:8-10). The vice alluded to is peculiarly hardening to the heart.”
The in-app commentary runs from the Fathers to the early-modern record, then stops — that's where the public-domain sources end, not where the reading does. For the modern reading, follow the sources directly.