27.1361 And immediately he says: Eat, my friends, and drink, and be drunk, brothers. See how the Savior commands the infants to eat; but to the greater ones he says, And drink; and to the perfect he said, And be drunk, brothers. Of course Paul, being perfect, and being intoxicated with this divine drunkenness, said: For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; or if we are of sound mind, it is for you. But do not think that he was beside himself from wine; for he himself commanded: Do not be drunk with wine, in which is debauchery; but, Use a little wine for your stomach's sake, he writes to Timothy; and if he commands others, how much more himself? For he was drunk with a good and divine drunkenness from the Word. And may it be that we also may be numbered with him in the kingdom of heaven in Christ Jesus. Amen.

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27.1361 καὶ εὐθέως λέγει· Φάγετε, οἱ πλησίον μου, καὶ πίετε, καὶ μεθύσθητε, ἀδελφοί. Ἰδὲ τὸν Σωτῆρα πῶς νηπίοις παραγγέλλει φαγεῖν· τοῖς δὲ μείζοσι λέγει, Καὶ πίετε· τοῖς δὲ τελείοις ἔλεγεν, ὅτι Καὶ μεθύσθητε, ἀδελφοί. Ἀμέλει γε Παῦλος, τέλειος ὢν, καὶ μεμεθυσμένος τὴν θείαν ταύτην μέθην, ἔλεγεν· Εἴτε γὰρ ἐξέστημεν Θεῷ, εἴτε σωφρονοῦμεν ὑμῖν. Μὴ νομίσῃς δὲ αὐτὸν, ὅτι ἀπὸ οἴνου ἦν ἐξιστάμενος· αὐτὸς γὰρ παρήγγειλε· Μὴ μεθύσκετε οἴνῳ, ἐν ᾧ ἐστιν ἀσωτία· ἀλλ', Ὀλίγῳ οἴνῳ χρῶ διὰ τὸν στόμαχόν σου, Τιμοθέῳ γράφει· εἰ δὲ ἄλλοις παραγγέλλει, πόσῳ μᾶλλον ἑαυτῷ; Ἐκεῖνος γὰρ μεμεθυσμένος ἦν καλὴν καὶ θείαν ἀπὸ τοῦ Λόγου μέθην. Γένοιτο δὲ καὶ ἡμᾶς συναριθμηθῆναι μετ' αὐτοῦ ἐν τῇ βασιλείᾳ τῶν οὐρανῶν ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ. Ἀμήν.

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