{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>With reason, therefore, the apostle enjoins, “Be not drunk with wine,\r\nin which there is much excess;” by the term excess (ἀσωτία) intimating\r\nthe inconsistence of drunkenness with salvation (ἄσωστον). For if He\r\nmade water wine at the marriage, He did not give permission to get\r\ndrunk. He gave life to the watery element of the meaning of the law,\r\nfilling with His blood the doer of it who is of Adam, that is, the\r\nwhole world; supplying piety with drink from the vine of truth, the\r\nmixture of the old law and of the new word, in order to the fulfilment\r\nof the predestined time. The Scripture, accordingly, has named wine\r\nthe symbol of the sacred blood; but reproving the base tippling with\r\nthe dregs of wine, it says: “Intemperate is wine, and insolent is\r\ndrunkenness.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_479\" id=\"FNanchor_479\">[479]</a> It is agreeable, therefore, to right reason, to\r\ndrink on account of the cold of winter, till the numbness is dispelled\r\nfrom those who are subject to feel it; and on other occasions as a\r\nmedicine for the intestines. For, as we are to use food to satisfy\r\nhunger, so also are we to use drink to satisfy thirst, taking the most\r\ncareful precautions against a slip: “for the introduction of wine is\r\nperilous.” And thus shall our soul be<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_207\">[207]</span> pure, and dry, and luminous; and\r\nthe soul itself is wisest and best when dry. And thus, too, is it fit\r\nfor contemplation, and is not humid with the exhalations, that rise\r\nfrom wine, forming a mass like a cloud. We must not therefore trouble\r\nourselves to procure Chian wine if it is absent, or Ariousian when it\r\nis not at hand. For thirst is a sensation of want, and craves means\r\nsuitable for supplying the want, and not sumptuous liquor. Importations\r\nof wines from beyond seas are for an appetite enfeebled by excess,\r\nwhere the soul even before drunkenness is insane in its desires.\r\nFor there are the fragrant Thasian wine, and the pleasant-breathing\r\nLesbian, and a sweet Cretan wine, and sweet Syracusan wine, and\r\nMendusian, an Egyptian wine, and the insular Naxian, the “highly\r\nperfumed and flavoured,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_480\" id=\"FNanchor_480\">[480]</a> another wine of the land of Italy. These\r\nare many names. For the temperate drinker, one wine suffices, the\r\nproduct of the cultivation of the one God. For why should not the wine\r\nof their own country satisfy men’s desires, unless they were to import\r\nwater also, like the foolish Persian kings? The Choaspes, a river of\r\nIndia so called, was that from which the best water for drinking—the\r\nChoaspian—was got. As wine, when taken, makes people lovers of it, so\r\ndoes water too. The Holy Spirit, uttering His voice by Amos, pronounces\r\nthe rich to be wretched on account of their luxury:<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_481\" id=\"FNanchor_481\">[481]</a> “Those that\r\ndrink strained wine, and recline on an ivory couch,” he says; and what\r\nelse similar he adds by way of reproach.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER II. ON DRINKING."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_479","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-363"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"bff355452bc1720d32400939b61a141fc26c069e9c60349a5219822631cea893","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PRO","chapter":20,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Prov. xx. 1","verse":1,"verse_end":1}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_479","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Project Gutenberg metadata: Public domain in the USA. Existing 1867 English translation; translator died 1875. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"Footnote_479","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_479\" id=\"Footnote_479\">[479]</a> Prov. xx. 1.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_479","text_sha256":"8a99f164bb19f199cb6b1614fe79553a92248b307b5ffb2a518c38032c289773","verified":false,"work_id":null}