ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

 Falaite Me 7, 2021

My son, keep my words

TAMA, tauhi ‘eku ngaahi lea

 

Palovepi 7 (Proverbs 7)

 (v. 1) TAMA, tauhi ‘eku ngaahi lea; Pea ko ‘eku ngaahi fekau, fa‘o ki he kānokato ke fe‘ao mo koe. Tauhi ‘eku ngaahi fekau, pea te ke mo‘ui; ‘Io, tauhi ‘eku lao ‘o hangē ko ho tama‘imata. Takai ia ki ho ngaahi tuhu; Tohi ia ‘i he tohi‘anga ‘o ho loto.

(v. 1-3) My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you; keep my commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye; bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.

 

*Commentary: The NIV Study Bible*

7:1-27 Tenth Paternal Appeal: Keep Away from Temptations to Adultery. The appeal begins with the plea for the  son to take the father's wise instruction to heart in order to keep himself away from the adulteress (vv. 1-5). The main section is a narrative about a man who willingly allows himself to be entrapped by the adulteress (vv. 6-23). The final verses appeal to the sons (plural, v. 24) to learn the point of the narrative: wisdom includes keeping off paths that one knows will lead to temptation, paths on which many have walked naively to their own ruin (vv. 24-26). This is the third paternal warning about adultery (see 5:1-23; 6:20–35).