is this: It is a controlled life, it is an ordered life. Here we have a link with what has gone before; because there he has told us that we must ‘walk circumspectly’, ‘not as fools, but as wise’. ‘Be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.’ Here he develops that idea. The Christian life is a controlled life, an ordered life; it is the very reverse of the condition of the drunkard who has lost control, and is being controlled by something else, as it were, and who is therefore