Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
Ver. 3. Not given to wine] No ale stake, tavern haunter, that sits close at it, till the wine inflame him.
No striker] Either with tongue or hand. Such as were Timotheus Herulus, A. D. 467; Pope Julius III, who cast away his keys, and girt on his sword; Bishop Bonner, who usually buffeted the poor martyrs brought before him, pulling off their beards, &c. Cognata vitia sunt vinolentia et violentia, sicut et magna cognatio est, ut rei, sit nominis, divitiis et vitiis.
Not greedy of filthy lucre] So as to get by unjust arts and sinful practices, as the pope by allowing the stews in Rome, and elsewhere. See Fiscus Papalis by Crashaw.
But patient] επιεικη, Easily parting with his own right for peace' sake, as Abraham did, as no covetous man will do.
No brawler] Or wrangler, quarrelsome, like a cock of the game, that is still bloody with the blood of others and of himself.
Not covetous] αφιλαργυρον. Not a lover of silver; and that (Euclio-like) sits abrood upon his heaps of illgotten goods, and will part with nothing.