Ephesians 5:4 Douay-Rheims

Or obscenity, or foolish talking, or scurrility, which is to no purpose; but rather giving of thanks.

George Leo Haydock

1774–1849 Catholic

Nor obscenity. [2] What is here meant by this word, St. Chrysostom tells us at large in the moral exhortation after his 17th homily; to wit, jests with immodest suggestions or a double meaning, and raillery or buffoonery against the rules of good conversation, scarce made use of by any but by men of low condition and of a mean genius, which is not to the purpose of a Christian, who must give an account to God of all his words. (Witham)

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1849 · Ephesians 5:4

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