17. Be ye not unwise. Be not fools in the employment of your time, and in your manner of life. Show true wisdom by endeavouring to understand what the will of the Lord is, and then doing it. 18. And be not drunk with wine. A danger to which they were exposed and a vice to which those around them were much addicted. Comp. Notes on Luke 21:34. It is not improbable that in this verse there is an allusion to the orgies of Bacchus, or to the festivals celebrated in honour of that heathen god. He was “the