...feast of suitable offerings for idolatrous worship. The consequences were shortly afterwards seen. " The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."f At a subsequent period, Moses, after giving to the Children of Israel the Commandments, which...

...greater watchfulness, " must avoid the enticements to vices, the provocatives to sins, " especially such as arise from meat and drink. Lastly, ' the "...swarest into the " words of that sacramental oath." We need no testimony from later writers ; yet it is remarkable that even Calvin, as a commentator,...

...evil things, as they also lusted. 7. Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. 8. Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty...

...may not desire evil as they desired. ? And do not become idolaters as some of them, as it is written: "The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play." 8 And let us not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty three thousand fell in...

...They rose early the next day, and offered burnt offerings and brought sacrifices of well-being; and the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to revel. The LORD said to Moses, "Go down at once! Your people, whom you brought up out of the land of...

...worship before the golden calf. They "offered burnt offerings and brought sacrifices of well-being; and the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to revel" (3a:6). God tells Moses that the people, in worshiping the golden calf, "have been quick to...

...still growing by leaps and bounds. America and the world like to play! In the early church at Corinth, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."(I Corinthians 10:7). Let's look at life today in America. Let's pretend that life is just one...

...make my brother stumble." 10:7) "And do not become idolaters as were some of them. As it is written, 'the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.' (Exodus 32:6) 10:14) Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry." Paul mentioned idolatry and things...

...light-hearted friskiness. Sacred scripture bears witness that friskiness follows gluttony, for it says: The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play [Exod. 32:6]. But before the body can be moved to play, the tongue is moved to jokes and empty words....

...evil things as they also lusted. And do not become idolaters as were some of them. As it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play." Nor let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twentythree thousand fell;...