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4:3 {2} For the time past of [our] life may suffice us to have wrought the {b} will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
(2) By putting us in mind of the dishonesty of our former life led in the filth of sin, he calls us to earnest repentance.
(b) Wickedly and licentiously after the manner of the Gentiles.
4:3 For the time past may suffice us enough. That was enough time for sin.
To have wrought the will of the Gentiles. Lived the unholy lives common among the heathen.
When we walked. Peter describes the common sins, sins of the Gentile world, sins in which too many Jews imitated them.
In lasciviousness, lusts. Sins of uncleanness.
Excess of wine. Drunkenness.
Revellings. Riotous merry making is meant. See Ro 13:13 Ga 5:21.
Banquetings. Carousings, as in the Revised Version.
4:3 Revellings, banquetings - Have these words any meaning now? They had, seventeen hundred years ago. Then the former meant, meetings to eat; meetings, the direct end of which was, to please the taste: the latter, meetings to drink: both of which Christians then ranked with abominable idolatries.
4:1-6 The strongest and best arguments against sin, are taken from the sufferings of Christ. He died to destroy sin; and though he cheerfully submitted to the worst sufferings, yet he never gave way to the least sin. Temptations could not prevail, were it not for man's own corruption; but true Christians make the will of God, not their own lust or desires, the rule of their lives and actions. And true conversion makes a marvellous change in the heart and life. It alters the mind, judgment, affections, and conversation. When a man is truly converted, it is very grievous to him to think how the time past of his life has been spent. One sin draws on another. Six sins are here mentioned which have dependence one upon another. It is a Christian's duty, not only to keep from gross wickedness, but also from things that lead to sin, or appear evil. The gospel had been preached to those since dead, who by the proud and carnal judgment of wicked men were condemned as evil-doers, some even suffering death. But being quickened to Divine life by the Holy Spirit, they lived to God as his devoted servants. Let not believers care, though the world scorns and reproaches them.
Abominable Already Carousing Carried Choose Course Debauchery Delight Desire Drinking Drunken Drunkenness Enough Excess Gentiles Habitual Hard Idolatries Idolatry Lasciviousness Lewdness Licentiousness Noisy Orgies Pagans Parties Passions Past Pursued Pursuing Revelings Revellings Revelry Revels Sensuality Spent Suffice Sufficient Time Unholy Walked Wine Wrought
Abominable Already Carousing Carried Choose Course Debauchery Delight Desire Drinking Drunken Drunkenness Enough Excess Gentiles Habitual Hard Idolatries Idolatry Lasciviousness Lewdness Licentiousness Noisy Orgies Pagans Parties Passions Past Pursued Pursuing Revelings Revellings Revelry Revels Sensuality Spent Suffice Sufficient Time Unholy Walked Wine Wrought
