Condemnation of Fornication and Adultery.
V.21. With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, she brought him around, she broke down his resistance, with the flattering of her lips she forced him, the young man being no match for the skilful and enticing rhetoric which the adulteress knew to employ.
V. 22. He goeth after her straightway, at once, with passionate promptness, the text indicating that this is always the case in similar situations, as an ox goeth to the slaughter or as a fool to the correction of the stocks, that is, as one who has lost his right mind is caught and fettered, v. 23. till a dart strike through his liver, an arrow dividing his vital organs; as a bird hasteth to the snare and knoweth not that it is for his life, the young man of the story and all victims like him not realizing that their life, their soul’s welfare, is at stake.