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Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house like the feast of a king. Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing until the morning light.
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Verse 36. Morning. Admirable pattern of discretion, and how reprimands may be made with advantage. Calmet.—A medicine given at an improper time often does harm. Plin. xvii. 27. When a person said to Cleostratus, “Are you not ashamed to get drunk?” he replied, “Are you not ashamed to rebuke a drunken man?”
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