Holly Bible - KJV with Concise Commentaries by Z Selam - HTML preview
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(1.) The sin he was tempted to was uncleanness, which considering his youth, his beauty, his single state, and his plentiful living at the table of a ruler, was a sin which, one would think, might most easily beset him and betray him.
(2.) The tempter was his mistress, a person of quality, whom it was his place to obey and his interest to oblige, whose favour would contribute more than anything to his preferment, and by whose means he might arrive at the highest honours of the court. On the other hand, it was at his utmost peril if he slighted her, and made her his enemy.
(3.) Opportunity makes a thief, makes an adulterer, and that favoured the temptation. The tempter was in the house with him; his business led him to be, without any suspicion, where she was; none of the family were within (Ge 39:11); there appeared no danger of its being ever discovered, or, if it should be suspected, his mistress would protect him.
(4.) To all this was added importunity, frequent constant importunity, to such a degree that, at last, she laid violent hands on him.
12 And she caught him by his garment, saying, lie with me: and he
left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.
By stedfastness of resolution. The grace of God enabled him to overcome the temptation by avoiding the tempter.
[1.] He hearkened not to her, so much as to be with her, Ge 39:10. Note, Those that would be kept from harm must keep themselves out of harm's way. Avoid it, pass not by it. Nay,
[2.] When she laid hold of him, he left his garment in her hand, Ge 39:12. He would not stay so much as to parley with the temptation, but flew out from it with the utmost abhorrence; he