Holy Scripture
Amos 2:12
A church father on this verse
“Samson and Samuel drank neither wine nor strong drink, for they were children of promise and conceived in abstinence and fasting. Aaron and the other priests when about to enter the temple refrained from all intoxicating drink for fear they should die. From this we learn that they die who minister in the church withou…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
12But ye gave the consecrated ones wine to drink; and ye commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
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In context
10And I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you about in the desert forty years, that ye should inherit the land of the Amorites.
11And I took of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for consecration. Are not these things so, ye sons of Israel? saith the Lord.
— Amos 2:12 —
13Therefore, behold, I roll under you, as a wagon full of straw is rolled.
14And flight shall perish from the runner, and the strong shall not hold fast his strength, and the warrior shall not save his life: