The conclusion is a warning against mere carnal abstinence. § 10.  “Beware of limiting the good of fasting to mere abstinence from meats.  Real fasting is alienation from evil.  ‘Loose the bands of wickedness.’ Is. lviii. 6.  Forgive your neighbour the mischief he has done you.  Forgive him his trespasses against you.  Do not ‘fast for strife and debate.’ Is. lviii. 4.  You do not devour flesh, but you devour your brother.  You abstain from wine, but you indulge in outrages.  You wait for evening before you take food, but you spend the day in the law courts.  Wo to those who are ‘drunken, but not with wine.’ Is. li. 21.  Anger is the intoxication of the soul, and makes it out of its wits like wine.  Drunkenness, too, is sorrow, and drowns our intelligence.  Another drunkenness is needless fear.  In a word, whatever passion makes the soul beside herself may be called drunkenness.…Dost thou know Whom thou art ordained to receive as thy guest?  He Who has promised that He and His Father will come and make their abode with thee. cf. John xiv. 23.  Why do you allow drunkenness to enter in, and shut the door on the Lord?  Why allow the foe to come in and occupy your strongholds?  Drunkenness dare not receive the Lord; it drives away the Spirit.  Smoke drives away bees, and debauch drives away the gifts of the Spirit.