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Proverbs 20:1

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
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Clement Of Alexandria

AD 215
Scripture always uses wine in a mystical sense, as a symbol of the holy blood, and always repudiates any intemperate use made of it. .

Ephrem The Syrian

AD 373
Those who eat the heavenly bread become heavenly without doubt! Wine teaches us in that it makes those who are familiar with it like itself: for it hates those who are fond of it and is intoxicating and maddening and a mocker of them.

George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
A luxurious thing. Hebrew, "a scoffer. "Chaldean, "renders one a scoffer. " Drunkenness. Hebrew ssocor, any strong drink, particularly palm-wine. Intemperance places the strongest obstacles in the way of wisdom. It causes a person to mock at all sacred things, and to be quarrelsome, chap. xxiii. 29., and Ephesians v. 18.

Pachomius the Great

AD 348
As it is said, “The priest and the prophet were deranged by wine.” “Wine is licentious, drunkenness is bold. The person who indulges in them will not be exempt from sin.” Wine is a good thing if you drink it with moderation. “If you set your eyes on cups and goblets you will walk naked as a pestle.” Therefore, all who have prepared to become disciples of Jesus should abstain from wine and drunkenness.

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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