John Trapp on Ephesians 5:3

Verſe 3. But fornication and all uncleanneſſe] As ſtanding in full oppoſition to that ſweet ſmelling ſavour, verſ. 2. being no better then the corruption of a dead ſoul, the devils excrement.

Let it not be once named] Much leſſe acted, as in Stage-plaies. Ludi praebent ſemina nequitiae. How Alipius was corrupted by them S. Austin tels us. How the youth of Athens, Ovid. Triſt. l. 2. Plato complaineth. One of our countrey-men profeſſeth in print, that he found theaters to be the very hatchers of all wickedneſſe, the brothels of bawdery, the black blaſphemy of the Goſpel, the devils chair, the plague of piety, the canker of the Common-wealth, &c. He inſtanceth on his knowledge Citizens wives confeſſing on their death-beds, that they were ſo impoiſoned at Stage-plaies,Spec belli ſacri. that they brought much diſhonour to God, wrong to their marriage-beds, weakneſſe to their wretched bodies, and woe to their undone ſouls. It was therefore great wiſdom in the Lacedemonians to forbid the acting of Comedies or Tragedies in their Common-wealth, and that for this reaſon, leſt either in jeſt or earneſt any thing ſhould be ſaid or done amongſt them contrary to the laws in force among them.Plutarch.