Behold, this have I found, says the preacher, adding one thing to another, to find out the reason:
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Her. He speaks by experience, (St. Jerome) as none perhaps ever fell more terribly victims of impure love. (Calmet)
Though a plurality of wives was then permitted, Solomon did wrong in marrying strangers; and in suffering himself to be deluded by them, so as to erect temples to their respective idols. (Haydock)
All the attractions of women are replete with danger, and can only be overcome by God's grace, and by flight, 1 Corinthians iv. 8., and Proverbs vii. 22., and xxii. 14. (Calmet)