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Matthew Henry observed her strategy: she calls them "simple" and "wanting understanding," inviting them to her school under pretense of refinement.
Exell notes the critical distinction: it is not the place itself, but the way to it.
It is through blindness and inconsonsideration that any man becomes entangled in the snares of the foolish woman.
This fast illuminates six crucial truths about temptation and spiritual warfare.
Among all earth's creatures, man alone is the worshipper.
First, he framed obedience as *easy*—merely "say the word." Second, he presented *opportunity*: stones lay ready at hand.
Solomon warns that the seductress "spreads a thousand snares"; escape one entanglement only to find yourself caught by another.
So too, a godly man will not gain—nor desire to gain—so much as a shoe-string through profaning the Sabbath with merchants, through fraud or deceit, through oppression or extortion, through usury (the devil's brokery), or through any unlawful or indirect...
Exell's *Biblical Illustrator* identifies three marks of temptation as she conducts her ministry of ruin.