John Trapp on Proverbs 5:17

Verſ. 17. Let them bee onely thine own] Siut, vel erunt, let them bee, or they ſhall bee: It is both an exhortation and a promiſe; q. d. Far bee it from thee to bee a pander to thine own bed (as the Lituanians, of whom Maginus relates, that they have their connubii adjutores, their coadjutours in wedlock, and prize them far above all their acquaintance:) God alſo will bleſs thee with an honeſt wife, that ſhall bee true to thy bed, and not obtrude upon thee children to keep, that are not thine. Saint Paul gives charge, that no man go beyond,Hieronym. Chryſoſt. Heinſius. or defraud his brother in the matter, that is, in re Venerea, in the matter of the marriage-bed (as ſome expound it) but that every one poſſeſs his veſſel, that is (ſay they) his wife, that weaker veſſel, in ſanctification and honour, 1 Theſ. 4.4, 5, 6.