this verse, to each of which two words are appropriated, viz. intem- jterance, impurity, and discord. Rioting and drunkenness belong- to the first ; the word appropriately rendered rioting is used both in reference to the disorderly religious festivals kept in honour of Bacchus, and to the common boisterous carousing* of intemperate young; men. The words chamhering and wantonness include all kinds of uncleanness ; and strife and envying all kinds of unholy emulation and discord.
(14) But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christy i. e. be as he was. To put on Christ signifies to be intimately united to him, so that he, and not we, may appear, Gal. 3 : 27. ' Let not your own evil deeds be seen (i. e. do not commit such), but let what Christ was appear in all your conduct, as effectually as if clothed with the garment of his virtues.'
And make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof. That is, let it not be your care to gratify the flesh. 'By flesh in this passage is generally, perhaps, understood the body ; so that the prohibition is con- fined to the vicious indulgence of the sensual appetites. But there seems to be no sufficient reason for this restriction. As the word is constantly used by Paul for whatever is corrupt, and in the preceding verse the sins of envy and contention are specially mentioned, it may be understood more generally, 'Do not indulge the desires of your corrupt nature.'