“For the law is the training of refractory children. "Having feasted to the full," accordingly, it is said, "they rose up to play;" senseless repletion with victuals being called fodder, not food. And when, having senselessly filled themselves, they senselessly played; on that account the law was given them, and terror…”
Clement of Alexandria, 3th c. — The Instructor Book 1
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7Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
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5But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
6Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
— 1 Corinthians 10:7 —
8Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
9Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.