Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
These men are full of new wine - Rather sweet wine, for , cannot mean the mustum , or new wine, as there could be none in Judea so early as pentecost. The , gleucus , seems to have been a peculiar kind of wine, and is thus described by Hesychius and Suidas: , , ͅ . Gleucus is that which distils from the grape before it is pressed. This must be at once both the strongest and sweetest wine. Calmet observes that the ancients had the secret of preserving wine sweet through the whole year, and were fond of taking morning draughts of it: to this Horace appears to refer, Sat. l. ii. s. iv. ver. 24.
Aufidius forti miscebat mella Falerno.
Mendose: quoniam vacuis committere venis
Nil nisi lene decet: leni praecordia mulso
Prolueris melius .
Aufidius first, most injudicious, quaffed
Strong wine and honey for his morning draught.
With lenient bev' rage fill your empty veins,
For lenient must will better cleanse the reins.
Francis.
Other Adam Clarke entries containing Acts 2:13:
Mark 16:17
Acts 2:44
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