The word of God is also given
To deliver thee from the strange woman,
Even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
Which forsaketh the guide of her youth,
And forgetteth the covenant of her God.
Again and again, we catch glimpses of this strange woman flitting in and out in the pages of our book. Who is she? Does she speak of anything more than impurity and uncleanness? Unquestionably, the primary meaning is clear on the face of the passages that concern her. She is the ensnaring enemy of morality and virtue who to-day, as in Solomon’s time, pursues her nefarious traffic in the bodies and souls of the young and unwary.
Forsaking the guide of her youth, forgetting the covenant of her God, she gives herself up to impure pleasures and soul destroying lusts.