Holy Scripture
Proverbs 31:5
A church father on this verse
“Lest he drink and forget judgments, etc. Lest, intoxicated by earthly allurements, he forgets the poor of Christ, who himself became poor for us.”
Source: Septuagint
Original
5lest they drink, and forget wisdom, and be not able to judge the poor rightly.
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3Give not your wealth to women, nor your mind and living to remorse. Do all things with counsel: drink wine with counsel.
4Princes are prone to anger: let them then not drink wine:
— Proverbs 31:5 —
6Give strong drink to those that are in sorrow, and the wine to drink to those in pain:
7that they may forget their poverty, and may not remember their troubles any more.