keep my commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye;
These verses are an introduction to his warning against fleshly lusts, much the same with that, Pro 6:20, etc., and ending (Pro 7:5) as that did (Pro 6:24), To keep thee from the strange woman; that is it he aims at; only there he had said, Keep thy father's commandment, here (which comes all to one), Keep my commandments, for he speaks to us as unto sons.
Commenting on Proverbs 7:1-5
Keep my commandments and live,.... Not the commandments of the law only, but the commandments of Christ; and even the doctrines of Christ are so called, as faith in him, and love to the saints, Jo1 3:23; which is the way to live comfortably, peaceably, pleasantly, and honourably; and my law as the apple of thine eye; the doctrine of Christ, the law of the...
apple . . . eye--pupil of eye, a custody (Pro 4:23) of special value.