Verse 33
33. Eyes… heart Intoxicating drinks inflame lust, and produce all manner of improper language. Zockler renders: “Thine eye shall see strange things; not strange women, but strange things, the objects of a drunken man’s vision, as the doubling of certain objects, their inversion, their tremulous or swaying motion,” etc. So, also, Miller. Is there here a reference to the delerium tremens, which Miller calls “the nightmare of the vice?” the horrible imagery and spectral terrors conjured up under the influence of mania a potu!
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Lieth down… top of a mast Like the sailor who goes to sleep at the masthead, he is in imminent peril but knows it not. It may be questioned whether ראשׁ חבל , ( rosh hhibbel,) means “masthead,”
especially as on eastern ships men do not mount aloft,but work the sails by ropes from the deck.
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