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Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink;
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A Perverted Strength
Commentators highlight that this verse condemns not just drunkenness, but the pride taken in the ability to drink heavily. Isaiah mocks those who boast of their "might" and "strength" in drinking, which John Calvin calls a "disgraceful and beastly ambition." Their God-given strength was perverted and wasted on self-indulgence rather than on serving God or their nation.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Woe unto them that are mighty... - This is the sixth specification of crime. He had already denounced the intemperate in ([Referenc…
19th Century
Anglican
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink... strong drink. — The words in part reproduce the “woe” of Isaiah 5:11-12, but wi…
16th Century
Protestant
Wo to them that are mighty to drink wine! Isaiah now censures another vice, namely, drunkenness and excess in eating, of which he had spok…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Woe unto [them that are] mighty to drink wine That can bear a great deal, and not be overcome and intoxicated with i…
Here is a woe to those who set their hearts on the wealth of the world. It is not that it is sinful for those who have a house and a field to purch…
13th Century
Catholic
1. Woe to you that call evil good. Here he sets out the vanity related to excusing sin.
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