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Ephesians 5:18 (WEB)
Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

Fathers and councils · 11

Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 36
“As I could, I have spoken; and as far as I can I see; and how far I see, I cannot speak.” — editor's note: [To spiritualize inebriation seems a difficult task; but as in heraldry we introduce the boar and the serpent for other qualities than their filth and their…
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Augustine of Hippo, Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 49
“Perhaps some are hearing me to whom it may be said, “Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess;” and they say, We cannot.” — editor's note: Eph. v. 18.
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John Chrysostom, Homilies on Matthew Homily 50
“That table at that time was not of silver nor that cup of gold, out of which Christ gave His disciples His own blood; but precious was everything there, and awful, for that they were full of the Spirit.” — editor's note: Comp. Eph. v. 18.
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Jerome, Letters Letter 22
“Besides, he remembered that he had spoken of “wine wherein is excess,” and had said, “it is good neither to eat flesh nor to drink wine.”” — editor's note: Eph. v. 18.
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Jerome, Letters Letter 54
“So too speaks the apostle: “Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess.”” — editor's note: Eph. v. 18.
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Jerome, Letters Letter 79
“But the same apostle says: “it is good neither to eat flesh nor to drink wine,” and in another place: “be not drunk with wine wherein is excess.”” — editor's note: Eph. v. 18.
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Jerome, Letters Letter 107
“Let her learn even now not to drink wine “wherein is excess.”” — editor's note: Eph. v. 18.
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Jerome, Letters Letter 108
“She called to mind the cave in which Lot found refuge, and with tears in her eyes warned the virgins her companions to beware of “wine wherein is excess;” for it was to this that the Moabites and Ammonites owe their origin.” — editor's note: Eph. v. 18.
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Tertullian, On Modesty Chapter 17
“…out by the apostle, when he puts restraints upon drunkennesses and revellings, as withal here: “And be not inebriated with wine, in which is voluptuousness.”” — editor's note: Ver. 18.
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Tertullian, The Five Books Against Marcion V.17Book V
“(The apostle says further:) “Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess,”—a precept which is suggested by the passage (of the prophet), where the seducers of the consecrated (Nazarites) to drunkenness are rebuked: “Ye gave wine to my holy ones to drink.”” — editor's note: Eph. v. 18.
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Ambrose of Milan, On the Holy Spirit I.8Book I
“For if the Apostle Paul judged that he was not able to give the Holy Spirit himself by his own authority, and considered himself so far unequal to this office that he wished us to be filled by God with the Spirit, who is sufficient to dare to arrogate to himself the conferring of this gift?” — editor's note: Eph. v. 18.
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