John Trapp on Proverbs 31:2
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Proverbs31:2
Verſ. 2. What, my ſon! and what, the ſon of my wombe!] An abrupt ſpeech, importing abundance of affection; even more than might be uttered. There is an Ocean of love in a Parents heart, a fathomleſs depth of deſire after the Childes welfare, in the mother eſpecially. Some of the Hebrew Doctors hold, that this was Bathſheba's ſpeech to her ſon after his fathers death: when ſhe partly perceived which way his Genius leaned and lead him: that then ſhee ſchooled him in this ſort, q. d. Is it even ſo my ſon, my moſt dear ſon, &c. O doe not give thy ſtrength to women, &c.
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