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Pro_23:20 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
Ver. 20. Be not among wine-bibbers.] Follow not the custom nor company of such; thou knowest not what thou mayest be drawn to do, though of thyself averse to such evil courses. Noah got no good by the luxurious old world {Mat_24:38} with whom he lived; nor Lot by the intemperate Sodomites. {Eze_16:49} Uriah, a good man, was at length persuaded to drink to excess. {2Sa_11:13} "Let him that standeth take heed lest he fall." That evil servant that presumes to "eat and drink with the drunken," shall be cut off in the middle {a} {Mat_24:49}
Among riotous eaters of flesh.] Among fleshmongers, qui crapulae indulgent, that pamper their paunches, In cute curanda plus aequo operati. See my Common Place of Abstinence. These are all for themselves, as Nabal was. Helluantur sibi carnem - so the Hebrew runs; They ravin up flesh for themselves.
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