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those who are disorderly, just as a physician will cry out to the disorderly: Having food and coverings, with these we shall be content. Food, not luxury; food, not the ruin that comes from drunkenness.

Luxury once stirred up Israel to an idolatrous dance; for drunkenness took the mind captive. For, it says, the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. Let us therefore maintain sufficiency of need; let the body be healed by nourishment; seeking the consolation of relief, let us not be broken by the burden of gluttony; let us have control over measured eating; let us turn away from the indecency of drunkenness, and we will have no danger; let us obey the exhortation of Paul: Do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Holy Spirit; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

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ἀτακτοῦντας, ωσπερ ἰατρὸς ἀτακτοῦσι βοήσει·Εχοντες διατροφὴν καὶ σκεπάσματα, τούτοις ἀρκεσθησώμεθα. ∆ιατροφὴν, οὐ τρυφήν· διατροφὴν, οὐ τὴν ἐκ μέθης ἀνατροπήν.

Τρυφή ποτε τὸν ̓Ισραὴλ εἰς εἰδωλικὴν διήγειρεν ορχησιν· ἡ γὰρ μέθη τὸν νοῦν ᾐχμαλώτευσεν· ̓Εκάθισε γὰρ, φησὶν, ὁ λαὸς φαγεῖν καὶ πιεῖν, καὶ ἀνέστησαν παίζειν. Τὴν τῆς χρείας τοίνυν τηρῶμεν αὐτάρκειαν· τροφῇ θεραπευέσθω τὸ σῶμα· ἀνέσεως παραμυθίαν ζητοῦντες, ἐμφορήσεως μὴ κλασθῶμεν φορτίῳ· μεμετρημένης ἐξουσιάζωμεν βρώσεως· ἐκκλίνωμεν τὴν τῆς μέθης ἀσχημοσύνην, καὶ κίνδυνον οὐχ εξομεν· πειθώμεθα παραινοῦντι τῷ Παύλῳ· Μὴ μεθύσκεσθαι οινῳ, ἐν ῳ  ἐστιν ἀσωτία, ἀλλὰ πληροῦσθαι ἐν Πνεύματι ἁγίῳ· ῳ ἡ δόξα εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας. ̓Αμήν