Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
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Gill's Exposition
Some men's sins are open before hand,.... Some men are such open and notorious sinners, that there is no need of any inquiry about them, or any examination of them; or any witnesses to be called to…
Barnes' Notes
Drink no longer water - There has been much difficulty felt in regard to the connection which this advice has with what precedes and what follows. Many have considered the difficulty to be so great…
Adam Clarke
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine - The whole of this verse seems, to several learned critics and divines, strangely inserted in this place; it might have been, according to them, a note…
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I. Concerning the supporting of ministers. Care must be taken that they be honourably maintained (Ti1 5:17): Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour (that…
Cambridge Bible
Drink no longer water The form of the verb and its tense require the fuller rendering of R.V., Be no longer a drinker of water. The connexion seems to be; -you have, I know, among other means of…
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