Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
Ver. 16. Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient,] i.e., Be moderate in the use of all lawful comforts and contentments. Aπαντων γαρ η πλησμονη, saith the orator, a for there is a satiety of all things, and by excess the sweetest comforts will be dissweetened, as Epictetus also observed. It is therefore excellent counsel that the holy apostle giveth, that "those that have wives be as if they had none," &c.; 1Co 7:29 that we hang loose to all creature comforts, and be weanedly affected towards them, considering that licitis perimus omnes. We generally most of all overshoot ourselves in the use of things lawful, as those recusant guests did, Mat 22:2-7 and the old world. Luk 17:26-27
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