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CAROUSINGS

ka-rouz'-ingz (potois, dative plural of potos): This word is found only in the American Standard Revised Version and once only (1 Peter 4:3). The King James Version translates it "banquetings." It is one of the Gentileexcesses of fleshly indulgence against which the Christians are warned by Peter.

 

From the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Edited by James Orr, published in 1939 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

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