17 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.



Ver. 17. For the kingdom of God, &c.] That was a swinish saying of Epicurus, that eternal life should be nothing else but a continual eating of the fat and drinking of the sweet, even unto an incessant surfeiting and drunkenness, êñáéðáëçí êáé ìåèçí áéùíéïí . The Turks to this day promise Paradise to such as die in war for the Mahometan faith, where they shall have delicious fare, pleasant gardens, all sensual delights, eternally to be enjoyed, notwithstanding any former sins. Fit lettuce for such lips.