Proverbs 20:1 (WEB)
Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
Fathers and councils · 4
Jerome
“…soul: for it is the way with us that we eat, and walk, and sleep, and digest our food, and afterwards in the fulness of blood have to bear the spur of lust.“Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler.”” — editor's note: Prov. xx. 1.
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Ephrem the Syrian
“Wine teaches us, in that it makes him that is familiar therewith like itself: for it hates much him that is fond of it, and is intoxicating and maddening, and a mocker to him!” — editor's note: Prov. xx. 1.
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Ambrose of Milan
“Wherefore one reads: “Wine is wasteful, drunkenness is abusive.”” — editor's note: Prov. xx. 1.
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Clement of Alexandria
“The Scripture, accordingly, has named wine the symbol of the sacred blood; but reproving the base tippling with the dregs of wine, it says: “Intemperate is wine, and insolent is drunkenness.”” — editor's note: Prov. xx. 1.
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Cross-references · 9
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.21.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.21.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.21.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.21.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.21.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.21.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.21.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.21.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.21.