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Prostitution and wine and new wine take away the understanding.
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Sin Clouds the Mind
Commentators unanimously agree that indulgence in sensuality—symbolized by "whoredom and wine"—literally "takes away the heart." Scholars explain this means it corrupts a person's affections, dulls their intellect, and destroys their ability to reason clearly. This combination of sins works to make a person brutish and irrational, removing the very understanding needed to follow God.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart — (Literally, “takes away”). Wine and fleshly sin are pictured as blended togeth…
19th Century
Anglican
Heart. — The whole inner life, consumed by these licentious indulgences.
16th Century
Protestant
The verb לקח lakech, means "to take away." The interpretation that wine and wantonness take possession of the heart is also admissible, bu…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Whoredom and wine, and new wine, take away the heart . Uncleanness and intemperance besot men, deprive them of reaso…
Both priests and people rejected knowledge, so God will justly reject them. They forgot the law of God. They neither desired nor endeavored to reta…
