Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.
Ver. 8. Thou shall not also go into the house of feasting.] Ministers may lawfully go to feasts, Joh 2:1-2 but not in times of common calamity. See Isaiah 22:12,14. Pliny a telleth us that when in the time of the second Punic war, one Fulvius Argentarius was seen at Rome looking out at a window with a rose garland on his head, the senate sent for him, laid him in prison, and would not suffer him to come forth till the war was at an end.
a Lib. ii. cap. 7.