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title: "Wesley"
description: "Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. Live — Thou shalt live. Eye — With all possible care and diligence. Bind them upon t"
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Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
*Live* — Thou shalt live.
*Eye* — With all possible care and diligence.

Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
*Bind them* — As a ring which is continually in a man's eye.

Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
*And call* — Acquaint and delight thyself with her.

Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
*Passing* — Idle and careless, near the corner of the street in which her house stood.

Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
*Without* — Without the door of her house.
*Corner* — Of the streets, where she might either conceal or discover herself, as she saw fit.

I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.
*Offerings* — I have paid my peace-offerings which I had vowed. Whereby she signifies, that she had plentiful provisions at her house for his entertainment. For the peace-offerings were to be of the best flesh, [Leviticus 22:21](../../../kjv/leviticus/22/21), and a considerable part of these offerings fell to the offerer's share.

He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.
*Hath taken* — Which is an evidence that he designs to stay a considerable time.
*At the day* — So that we need not fear any surprise.

He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
*As an ox* — Going to it securely, as if it were going to a good pasture.

Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
*His liver* — His vital parts, 'till his life be lost.

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