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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
Woe to those who rise early in the morning to pursue drunkenness, and continue drinking until evening, so that they are inflamed with wine. They have the lyre, the harp, the tambourine, and the flute at their feasts, but they do not regard the work of the Lord or consider the operation of His hands. Regarding drunkenness, which Aquila and Symmachus have interpreted as the Hebrew word Siceram, the LXX have rendered it as any drink that can intoxicate and overthrow one's mental state. …
Thomas Aquinas
176. Woe to you that rise up early in the morning to follow drunkenness. Here he denounces their fault as to the abuse of food. And first, he denounces the fault, second, he threatens punishment, where it says, therefore is my people led away captive (Isa 5:13). Concerning the first, he does two things: first, he denounces gluttony as to its species, second as to its effect, where it says, and the work of the Lord you regard not (Isa 5:12). 177. …
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