Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not fitting: but rather giving of thanks.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Nor obscenity. What is here meant by this word, St. 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)
