John Trapp on Proverbs 2:18

Verſ. 18. For her houſe inclineth unto death] Terence calleth Harlots Cruces, quia juvenes macerent & affligant. Venery is deaths beſt Harbinger: Venus ab antiquis [non-Latin text not transcribed] dicta. Jacob. Re[illegible: 1 letter]ias. Shee provideth, ſaith one, not for thoſe that are already born, but for thoſe that ſhall bee born. Of Pope Paul the fourth (that old Goat) it went for a by word, Eum per candem partem animam profudiſſe, per quam acceperat. Pope John the twelfth being taken with an Adultereſs, was ſtabbed to death by her Husband. Alexander the Great, and Oth[illegible: 1 letter] the third,Barns. loſt their lives by their luſts. But how many (alas) by this means have loſt their ſouls! Fleſhly luſts (by a ſpecialty) fight againſt the ſoul, 1 Pet. 2.12. And nothing hath ſo much inriched hell (ſaith one) as beautiful faces.

And her paths unto the dead] Hebrew, El Rhephaim to the Giants: [non-Latin text not transcribed]. Sept. [non-Latin text not transcribed] projecti ſunt. To that part of hell where thoſe damned monſters are, together with thoſe ſenſual Sodomites, who giving themſelves over to fornication, and going after ſtrange fleſh, are thrown forth for an example, ſuffering the vengeance of eternal fire, Jude 7.