The Proverbs
⭑ Catholic Public Domain Version 2009 ⭑
- Chapter 6 -
Warning against suretyship
1
2
3
4
5
Warning against laziness
6
7
8
9
10
11
Warning against falsehood
12
13
14
15
Prevention of seven sins
16
17
18
19
Prevention against adultery
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
Footnotes
(a)6:12 One meaning of this passage is to refer to the Antichrist. The word ‘inutilis’ can mean ‘useless,’ but in the context of apostasy and perverse words, it must have its alternate meaning, which is ‘harmful.’(Conte)
(b)6:16 Again, this refers, in one level of meaning to the Antichrist. He will have a reign of six years, plus part of a seventh year. The six things are the six full years of his reign, and the seventh is the most detestable time of his reign (when he attempts to make a false ascension to the heavens). The number 616 refers to the Antichrist’s name: six letters in his first name, six letters in this last name, with his middle initial in-between.(Conte)
(c)6:19 These three verses (6:17-19) are a description of the Antichrist: he tries to sow discord among the brethren of the Church; he bears false witness against the true Christ.(Conte)
(d)6:24 The negative things that are said in the Book of Proverbs about an evil woman or a loose (or kept) woman, can also be applied to the false prophet, who is a associated with the Antichrist and who will be a female antipope.(Conte)
(e)6:26 The loaf is the false Eucharist promoted by this female false prophet, especially when she becomes antipope. She tries to seize men’s souls with flattery. She is attractive looking, and claims to be chaste, but she a loose woman, worse than a prostitute.(Conte)
(f)6:30
The fault is not so great, etc: The sin of theft is not so great, as to be compared with adultery: especially when a person pressed with hunger (which is the case here spoken of) steals to satisfy nature. Moreover the damage done by theft may much more easily be repaired, than the wrong done by adultery. But this does not hinder, but that theft also is a mortal sin, forbidden by one of the ten commandments.(Challoner)