Verse 21
21. Envyings Distinguished from emulation. The latter is a desire to equal or excel another; the former to reduce another below ourselves.
Murder The completion of all the previous malignities. Next follow the indulgences of appetite.
Revellings Inclusive of drinking, feasting, dancing, etc. And here we record our testimony against all dancing, even in private circles. It is a branch of a whole system of connected revelry, just as card playing is a branch of a whole connected system of venture and gambling. Precisely to the degree that these prevail, especially with the connivance of the Christian Church, will frivolity, gliding into revelry, extravagance, and irreligion, prevail. It is never conducive to health, and in the best sanitary institutions is not practised.
Told you in time past Referring, doubtless, to his testimonies in his earlier preaching in Galatia. They had been warned already in vocal announcement; they are now warned in recorded testimony. It is a deep and solemn warning.
Inherit Note on 1 Corinthians 6:9.
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