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Proverbs 7:2

Proverbs 7:2
Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Keep my commandments and live,.... Not the commandments of the law only, but the commandments of Christ; and even the doctrines of Christ are so called, as faith in him, and love to the saints, Jo1…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Proverbs 7:1-5

These verses are an introduction to his warning against fleshly lusts, much the same with that, Pro 6:20, etc., and ending (Pro 7:5) as that did (Pro 6:24), To keep thee from the strange woman; that…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

the apple i.e. the pupil: "an emblem of that which is tenderest and dearest, and therefore guarded with the most jealous care," Psa 17:8, note in this Series. Comp. Deu 32:10; Zec 2:8.