nor strong drinke] Lest it should so affect their heads, or hearts, as to make them faile either in devotion, or in decencie and decorum belonging to their holy ministration; and from this ordinance, presently made upon the act of Nadab and Abihu, it is thought, they were raised up to this presumption, by the fume of strong drinke. The devilis Gods Ape, by whom, in imitation of this, the Egyptian Priests were forbidden wine and flesh continually: and so did he imitate the continuall burning of the fire upon the Altar, Cha. 6. 12. and that in divers places among the heathens, as among the Persians, who made a God of it; and among the Delphi and Graecians, who worshipped it in the temple of Apollo; and the Romans, who worshipped it under the name of Vesta, committing the charge of it to the Vestall Virgins; and if it chanced to goe out, it was held fatall to the Citie. Rhodigin: Antiq. Lect. 50: 14. 100: 14.