“With a provocative movement of a prostitute, with a disrupted gait through delights, with wandering eyes, and with playful darting of her eyelids, she captures the precious souls of young men (for the eye of a prostitute is a snare of a sinner), and with doubtful perception, she accosts anyone passing by in the corner…”
Ambrose of Milan, 4th c. — On Cain and Abel
Original
19For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
Modern
Preparing…
Teens
Preparing…
Kids
Preparing…
In context
17I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
18Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
— Proverbs 7:19 —
20He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.
21With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.