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Matthew Poole and continuators on Habakkuk 2:15

Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Browse this work.

Habakkuk2:15

15 ¶ Wo unto him that giveth his neighbour drink : that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness .

Another publick and crying sin of this Chaldaean Kingdom was excessive drinking, and making one another drunk, and for this God will severely punish.

Forcing them by importunity or threats to drink by greater measures then they can bear.

Never givest over till thou hast made him vile and loathsome, as well as senseless in his drink.

Designing to put the greatest abuse on them, exposing them to view, scorn and derision, or to beastly, or not to be named uncleanness, which vice the Babylonians are charged with by Herodotus and Ctesias.

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