And they rose up early on the next day, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
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Ambrose of Milan
AD 397
He who wallows and sinks in mud pits falls into the snares of treachery. For “the people sat down to eat and drink,” and they demanded that gods be made for them. Whence the Lord teaches that he who gives his soul over to these two types of shameful deeds is divested of a garment not of wool but of living virtue, for the cloak of virtue is not temporal but eternal. ()..
