...as awfully pernicious. " Strong drink is raging ; and whoever is deceived thereby, is not wise." " They are out of the way through strong drink ; they err in vision ; they stumble in judgment." Such passages shew clearly the mind of God with respect to the nature and use of this article. And...

...scribes, and the doctors ; whose state is figuratively set forth in these words: " But they also hare erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way : the priest and the prophet^iave erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through...

...offence, and that drunkenness is the grand auxiliary thereof, for it is written that "they have also erred through wine, and through strong drink, are out of the way ;" and this is the case at the coming of the Lord, for the Holy Ghost by the prophet declares, that,...

...judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate. 7 IT But they also have erred through wine, and through...drink, they err in vision, they stumble in judgment. 8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean. 9 IT Whom shall...

...This delusion is set forth as an " erring through wine :" it is said, that " through strong drink they are out of the way : the priest and the prophet have...drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment." As in the first chapter of this prophet, the disgusting loathsomeness of a putrid human carcase was...

...40. Full of ejtortion and excess."] They also have erred through wine, and through strong drink arc oghlan so that there и no place clean. Is. xxviii. 7- 8. -tí Cleanse ßrst that which is within.] Either...

...expressly recorded, that it was through drunkenness they came, as a nation, to shame and ruin. "They have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way ; (even) the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink ; they are swallowed up of wine,...

...here to stop. By the time of Isaiah, therefore, the scene was awful. "They have erred," said he, " through wine, and through strong drink are out of...strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine ; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment." The very next year after this, Judah being now equally corrupt...

...persons. " Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging ; and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise." " They are out of the way through strong drink ; they err in wisdom, they stumble in judgment." A sailor who had been rendered insensible through strong drink,...

...land," Jerem. xxiii. 15. "The prophets shall become wind, and the Word is not in them," Jerem. v. 13. " The priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are, swallowed up of wine, they stumble in judgment," Isaiah xxviii. 7. " The sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall...