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Eph 5:18. Μὴ μεθύσκεσθε οἴνῳ, be not drunk with wine) So the LXX. plainly, Pro 23:31 (30). Appropriately to the exhortation against impurity, he subjoins the exhortation against drunkenness.-ἐν ᾧ) in which, viz. wine, so far as it is drunk without moderation.-ἀσωτία) Ἄσωτος is used for ἀσωστος: hence ἀσωτία denotes every luxury inconsistent with frugality. See its opposite, Eph 5:19, concerning the effect of spiritual fulness.-ἀλλὰ) So generally the LXX. in Prov. quoted above: ἀλλὰ ὁμιλεῖτε ἀνθρώποις δικαίοις, but associate with righteous men.