Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.
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Gregory of Nyssa
AD 394
Console each other with the following words. It is a good medicine that [Solomon] has for sorrow; for he bids wine be given to the sorrowful. He says this to us, the laborers in the vineyard, “Give,” therefore, “your wine to those that are in sorrow,” not that wine which produces drunkenness, plots against the senses and destroys the body, but such as gladdens the heart, the wine which the prophet recommends when he says, “Wine makes glad the heart of man.” Pledge each other in that liquor undiluted and with the unstinted goblets of the word, that thus our grief may be turned to joy and gladness, by the grace of the onlybegotten Son of God, through whom be glory to God, even the Father, for ever and ever. Amen. .
