For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
So true this that those who have been ensnared and fallen into ways of uncleanness go through life under a blight from which they never recover. The memory of unholy reveals, of filthy pollutions, will abide and prove a source of shame and grief to the end.
The more sincere the repentance, the more truly this be the case.
But having considered all this, is there not another meaning also to be taken from these many warnings concerning the strange woman? In a secondary sense, it seems evident that, as in the evil man we have set forth independently of God– rationalism run riot; so in the strange woman we see false religion as eventually to be headed up in Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots and abominations that be upon the face of the earth. How devious are her ways! How subtle and deceptive her solicitations! And how truly can it be said that “her house inclineth unto death and her path unto the dead!”
Only the word of God can preserve the soul from her corruption and keep the feet in the path of life.