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nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.
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Verse 4. Nor obscenity. [2] What is here meant by this word, Saint John 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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