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Ephesians 5:18
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16 aredeeming the time, bbecause the days are evil.  
17 aTherefore do not be unwise, but bunderstand cwhat the will of the Lord is.  
18 And ado not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit,  
19 speaking to one another ain psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making bmelody in your heart to the Lord,  
20 agiving thanks always for all things to God the Father bin the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,  
21 asubmitting to one another in the fear of1 God.  

Marriage—Christ and the Church

22 Wives, asubmit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.  
23 For athe husband is head of the wife, as also bChrist is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body.  
24 Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands ain everything.  
25 aHusbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and bgave Himself for her,  
26 that He might1 sanctify and cleanse her awith the washing of water bby the word,  
27 athat He might present her to Himself a glorious church, bnot having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.  
28 So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself.
29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church.
30 For awe are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones.  
31 a“For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the btwo shall become one flesh.”  
32 This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
33 Nevertheless alet each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she brespects her husband. 
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Ephesians 5:18

Be 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 , to get drunk, is derived from , after, and , to sacrifice; for, having completed their sacrifices, they indulged themselves in wine. The word , 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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