and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit,Ephesians 5:18 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleBe not drunk with wine, wherein is excess - This is a farther allusion to the Bacchanalian mysteries; in them his votaries got drunk, and ran into all manner of excesses. Plato, though he forbade drunkenness in general, yet allowed that the people should get drunk in the solemnities of that god who invented wine. And indeed this was their common custom; when they had offered their sacrifices they indulged themselves in drunkenness, and ran into all kinds of extravagance. Hence it is probable that μεθυω, to get drunk, is derived from μετα, after, and θυω, to sacrifice; for, having completed their sacrifices, they indulged themselves in wine. The word ασωτια, which we translate excess, means profligacy and debauchery of every kind; such as are the general concomitants of drunkenness, and especially among the votaries of Bacchus in Greece and Italy.
But be filled with the Spirit - The heathen priests pretended to be filled with the influence of the god they worshipped; and it was in these circumstances that they gave out their oracles. See a remarkable instance of this quoted in the note on Luke 9:39 (note), where the case of a Bacchanalian is described. The apostle exhorts the Ephesians not to resemble these, but, instead of being filled with wine, to be filled with the Spirit of God; in consequence of which, instead of those discoveries of the Divine will to which in their drunken worship the votaries of Bacchus pretended, they should be wise indeed, and should understand what the will of the Lord is.
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be not.
Genesis 9:21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
Genesis 19:32-35 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father...
Deuteronomy 21:20 And they shall say to the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton...
Psalm 69:12 They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
Proverbs 20:1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Proverbs 23:20,21,29-35 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh...
Isaiah 5:11-13,22 Woe to them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!...
Matthew 24:49 And shall begin to smite his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
Luke 12:45 But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delays his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens...
Luke 21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life...
Romans 13:13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
1 Corinthians 5:11 But now I have written to you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater...
1 Corinthians 6:10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortionists, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Corinthians 11:21 For in eating every one takes before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
Galatians 5:21 Contentions, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past...
1 Thessalonians 5:7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
excess.
Matthew 23:25 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter...
1 Peter 4:3,4 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have worked the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts...
but.
Psalm 63:3-5 Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you...
Songs 1:4 Draw me, we will run after you: the king has brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in you...
Songs 7:9 And the roof of your mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goes down sweetly...
Isaiah 25:6 And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make to all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees...
Isaiah 55:1 Ho, every one that thirsts, come you to the waters, and he that has no money; come you, buy, and eat...
Zechariah 9:15-17 The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink...
Luke 11:13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children...
Acts 2:13-18 Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine...
Acts 11:24 For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith: and much people was added to the Lord.
Galatians 5:22-25 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith...
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