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Basil the Great
AD 379
This vice of gluttony delivered Adam up to death; by the pleasure of the appetite consummate evil was brought into the world. Through it Noah was mocked, Canaan was cursed, Esau was deprived of his birthright and married into a Canaanite family. Lot became his own soninlaw and fatherinlaw, by marrying his own daughter. .