[e] rioting] What κῶμος signifies is not so commonly observed. Theophylact defines it τὰ μετὰ μίθης καὶ ὕβρεως ἄσματα, "songs with drunkenness and contumely." In which definition, as the word ὕβρις, contumely, is oft used in an impure sense, to denote unlawful loves and pursuits, so in all probability doth it there, for the night-amorous revels are they that are peculiarly signified by κῶμοι. So Wisd. xiv. 23, where speaking of the heathens κρύφια μυστήρια, secret mysteries, he joins with them ἐμμανείς κώμους, mad revels; and as the effects thereof, adds, οὔτε βίους, οὔτε γάμους καθαρούς φυλάσσουσι, they keep neither lives nor marriages pure. So 2 Macc. vi. 4, when he saith the temple was filled ἀσωτίας καὶ κώμων, he adds, ῥαθυμούντων μεθ' ἐταίρων, dallying with harlots, γυναιξὶ πλησιαζόντων—And he that doth this is in Theocritus [c] Rejoice with them that do—] This verse seems to refer to the two gates of the temple, one called the gate of the bridegroom, and the other of the mourners, into which two sorts of men all kinds of persons are divided: under the first are contained all those that continue unblemished members of the church, under no kind of censure; under the other are the excommunicate of any the lowest kind, those under nidui, which though they might come into the temple, yet were to come in at that door of mourners, with some difference upon them, and discrimination from other men, that they that saw them might pray for them in this form, Qui inhabitat domum hanc consoletur te, indatique animo tuo ut obtemperes, "He that dwells in this house comfort thee, and give thee a heart to obey." See 1 Cor. v. 2. note [c] and vii. 30. and 2 Cor. ii. 1. and vii. 8. and xii. 21. And accordingly the exhortation is to have affections Christianly disposed toward all men, to be very much afflicted, which, 2 Cor. xii. 21, is called πενθειν, mourning or bewailing such as are (for their faults) justly fallen under the censures of the church, and to do the utmost we can toward their recovery; and on the other side, to rejoice at the spiritual good and proficiency of all others.