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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
"I thought to stimulate my body with wine while my heart is involved with wisdom, and to grasp folly, until I can discern which is best for mankind to do under the heavens during the brief span of their lives. " I wanted to stimulate my life with enjoyment, and to lull my body, as if freed from all worries by wine, in the same way with desire; but my deep consideration and inborn reasoning, which God the creator mingled even into my sins, drew me away from the idea and led me back to seek wisdom and to spurn foolishness, so that I …
Bonaventure
"I thought in my heart" etc. Here the fourth point is touched upon, namely the return to the consideration of useful things, and this by returning from pleasure to sobriety. On account of which he says: "I thought in my heart to withdraw my flesh from wine," because it inclines in a wondrous manner toward pleasure; whence Ephesians 5: "Be not drunk with wine, wherein is luxury"; and Proverbs 20: "Wine is a luxurious thing, and drunkenness tumultuous: whoever delights in these things shall not be wise." Therefore he thought to abandon …
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