There was a certain rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen, and feasted sumptuously every day:
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
But when the world rejoices, let us grieve; and when the world afterward grieves, we shall rejoice. Thus, too, Eleazar.
Tormented in hell, and the poor man resting in Abraham's bosom.
Nay, even in Hades the admonition has not ceased to speak; where we find in the person of the rich feaster, convivialities tortured; in that of the pauper, fasts refreshed; having-(as convivialities and fasts alike had)-as preceptors "Moses and the prophets."
