“What are drunkards but the idols of the
heathen? They have eyes and see not, ears and hear not. Ps. cxv. 5.
Their hands are helpless; their feet dead.” The whole
Homily is forcible. It is quoted by Isidore of
Pelusium, 1
Ep. lxi. and St. Ambrose
seems to have been acquainted with it. De Eb. et
Jejunio. c. 18.