Numbers 6:3
Besides the religious nature of this institution, it seems to have been partly of a civil and prudential use. The sobriety and temperance which the Nazarites were obliged to observe were very conducive to health. Accordingly, they were celebrated for their fair and ruddy complexion; being said to be both whiter than milk and more ruddy than rubies (La 4:7); the sure signs of a sound and healthy constitution. It may here be observed, that when God intended to raise up Samson, by his strength of body, to scourge the enemies of Israel, he ordered, that from his infancy he should drink no wine, but live by the rule of the Nazarites, because that would greatly contribute to make him strong and healthy; intending, after nature had done her utmost to form this extraordinary instrument of his providence, to supply her defect by his own supernatural power. See Jenning's Jewish Antiquities, B. I. c. 8.
Numbers 6:20
then ... priest ... wave ................. priest <03548 05130> [the priest shall.]
wave offering ................... wave offering <08573> [with the wave.]
After <0310> [and after.]
Proverbs 31:4-5
remove <08138> [pervert. Heb. alter. any of the afflicted. Heb. all the sons of affliction.]
Isaiah 28:7
stagger .............. stagger .................. stagger <07686> [erred.]
confused <01104> [are swallowed.]
stagger .............. stagger .................. stagger .... prophetic visions <07686 07203> [err in.]
Jeremiah 35:5-6
Have <08354> [Drink.]
Jonadab <03122> [Jonadab.]
drink ....................... drink <08354> [Ye shall.]
Jonadab, a man of fervent zeal for the pure worship of God, and who lived about three hundred years before this time, (2 Ki 10:15, 16, etc.) had probably practised these rules himself; and having trained up his children to habits of abstemiousness, he enjoined them and their posterity to adhere to them. In these regulations he seems to have had no religious, but merely a prudential view, as is intimated in the reason annexed to them "that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers." And this would be the natural consequence of observing these rules; for their temperate mode of living would very much contribute to preserve health and prolong life; and they would avoid giving umbrage, or exciting the jealousy or envy of the Jews, who might have been provoked, by their engaging and succeeding in the principal business in which they themselves were engaged, agriculture and vine-dressing to expel them their country; by which they would have been deprived of the religious advantages they enjoyed. In 1 Ch 2:55, they are termed scribes, which intimates that they were engaged in some kind of literary employments.
[all.]
[that ye.]
Ezekiel 44:21
Luke 1:15
great <3173> [great.]
He must ... drink ... or .... and <2532 4095> [and shall.]
he will be filled <4130> [filled.]
even <2089> [even.]
Ephesians 5:18
do not get drunk <3182 3361> [be not.]
debauchery <810> [excess.]
but <235> [but.]
Ephesians 5:1
imitators <3402> [followers.]
as <5613> [as.]
Ephesians 3:3
by <2596> [by.]
divine secret <3466> [the mystery.]
as I wrote before <2531 4270> [as I.]
I wrote before <4270> [afore. or, a little before.]
Ephesians 3:8
less than the least <1647> [who am.]
this ... was given <1325 3778> [is this.]
to proclaim <2097> [I.]
unfathomable <421> [unsearchable.]
Ephesians 5:23
husband <435> [husband.]
also <2532> [even.]
himself <846> [he.]
Titus 1:7
overseer <1985> [a bishop.]
as <5613> [as.]
not arrogant not ..... not .... not ... not <3361 829> [not selfwilled.]
not ... not prone to anger not .... not ... not <3361 3711> [not soon.]
not ... not ..... not a drunkard not ... not <3361 3943> [not given to wine.]
not ... not ..... not .... not ... not <3361> [no.]
not ... not ..... not .... not ... not greedy for gain <3361 146> [not given to filthy.]
