Verse 12
12. Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine The canine figure is dropped, but the same sensual character in the religious teachers is kept up. Drunkenness is now the vice charged.
Strong drink On this, see note on Isaiah 5:11. The disgrace attending this vice among the clergy of this day and of this land is its rightful punishment. Any man who makes a beast of himself by habits of indulgence in intoxicating drinks, becomes a moral outcast in all good circles of society; but much more the religious teacher when caught in this vice. As respects such inebriates, it would seem from Jeremiah 23:1-4; Ezekiel 34:0; and Zechariah 11:0, that about the same estimate was anciently held respecting these characters as now. Objects of pity they are indeed, but of moral respectability, not at all. They are, however, worthy of all aid to secure their rescue.
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