Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Joel 1:5
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 11, page 389, footnote 1 (Image)
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... and who do not on any occasion have anything to do with those visible cares and drunkenness and surfeiting. But there is another surfeiting which is no less dangerous, and a spiritual drunkenness which it is harder to avoid, and a care and anxiety of this world, which often ensnares us even after the perfect renunciation of all our goods, and abstinence from wine and all feastings and even when we are living in solitude—and of such the prophet says: “Awake, ye that are drunk but not with wine;”[Joel 1:5] and another: “Be astonished and wonder and stagger: be drunk and not with wine: be moved, but not with drunkenness.” And of this drunkenness the wine must consequently be what the prophet calls “the fury of dragons”: and from what root the wine ...