A snare to a man is he hath swallowed a holy thing, And after vows to make inquiry.Proverbs 20:25 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleWho devoureth that which is holy - It is a sin to take that which belongs to God, his worship, or his work, and devote it to one's own use.
And after vows to make inquiry - That is, if a man be inwardly making a rash vow, the fitness or unfitness, the necessity, expediency, and propriety of the thing should be first carefully considered. But how foolish to make the vow first, and afterwards to inquire whether it was right in the sight of God to do it! This equally condemns all rash and inconsiderate conduct. My old MS. Bible translates, Falling is of men often to vowen to seyntis, and after, the vouw is agen brawen. Is it possible that Wiclif could have translated this verse thus? as it strongly countenances vows to and invocations of saints.
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a snare
Proverbs 18:7 A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
Leviticus 5:15 If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy things of the LORD...
Leviticus 22:10-15 There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing...
Leviticus 27:30 And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD's: it is holy to the LORD.
Malachi 3:8-10 Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed me. But you say, Wherein have we robbed you? In tithes and offerings...
after
Leviticus 27:9,10,31 And if it be a beast, whereof men bring an offering to the LORD, all that any man gives of such to the LORD shall be holy...
Numbers 30:2 If a man vow a vow to the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word...
Ecclesiastes 5:4-6 When you vow a vow to God, defer not to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools: pay that which you have vowed...
Matthew 5:33 Again, you have heard that it has been said by them of old time, You shall not forswear yourself...
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