eating and drinking] Conversing with men in a more familiar and sociable course of life. His course differed from Johns, but they both aimed at the same end; yet could not either way effect it, such was the fampoldnesse of the people. a man gluttonous, &c.] A man given to excesse in the use of the creatures, and keeping company with persons noted for bad and loose life. wisedom is justified of her children] Though there be many that scoff at all means of grace, yet the wise counsel of God, Luke 7:30. in calling sinners home by Johns austerity, and Christs familiarity, is approved, as Psalms 51:4. Romans 3:4. Luke 7:29. by the followers of it, as Luke 10:6. to shew, that neither Johns nor Christs labours had been fruitlesse.