...redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ! They that go to seek mixed wine ! Look not ihou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its colour in the CUP ; when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. The reader will pardon...

...many repetitions of the emphatic words with which every paragraph was wound up and rounded off, — " Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his color in the cup," a shrill female voice, ascending from one of the extremities of the building,...

...restraints under which God has laid us may be summed up in one word, — Do thyself no harm. We may look upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright ; but, at the last, it will bite like a serpent, and sting as doth an adder. We may roll...

...seem so fair. Moreover, a Holy Book that his eyes had never looked upon, doth instruct us, saying, " Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright ; for at the last, it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth...

...spirits. That wine is red : better still ; so it should be, this argues the lustre and goodness of it : " Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup," Prov. xxiii. 31 : the colour adds to the pleasure. But now it к fuit of mixture...

...the temptation. He did not flee from it as the wise man counselled, when he bade the tempted man " Look not upon the wine when it is red, •when it giveth his colour in the cup :" and so the words came to pass, " The drunkard and the glutton shall come to...

...Scripture countenances the drinking of such wine, as Solpmon refers to in the following inspired advice "Look not upon the wine when it is .red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when itimoveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a. serpent and stingeth...

...from thee."— Matt v. 29. guish the incentives, avoid the occasions, shun the temptations to sin. " Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine...

...redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine : they that go to seek mixed wine. — Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder." (Prov. xxiii. 29...

...solicitations, it hath lost of its conjugal affections unto Christ, and is entangled. This is " looking on the wine when it is red, when it giveth its colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright," Prov. xxiii. 31 ; — a pleasing contemplation on the invitations of sin, whose end...