Satisfied: Passive Purity

This, of course, is Solomon speaking to his sons, and if you're reading the context in Proverbs 5-7 especially, it's a warning against the strange woman.

But here he goes a little bit anecdotal and tells a specific story.

of him looking out his window so i'll just let's read the story proverbs chapter 7 and verse number 6 for at the window of my house i looked through my casement and beheld among the simple ones i discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding Passing through the street near her corner.

The her is the strange woman, that one that he could easily succumb to her temptation of lust.

It's the personification of our lust.

So again, in verse 8, it says, Passing through the street near her corner.

and he went the way to her house.

Now, if we read on through this passage, it's really quite tragic, but he finds himself then next to this strange woman who is able to entice him to go back to her house and give in to this temptation.

So the question then is, was this his fault? Did he intentionally seek out the strange woman? Or did he just fall prey to his lust at an unfortunate time of temptation? Just wrong place, wrong time.

Well, to answer that, let's actually look how Solomon describes this young man.

It says that he beheld among the simple ones.

a young man, and then it also describes him as void of understanding, which I think is just a clarifying clause to kind of what he's dealing with earlier with that term, the simple ones.

Now, when I first started studying this, I thought it was interesting because simple here is clearly negative.

In a big way, being simple was his downfall.