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24 Jun 2019

Advice For Wine Drinkers



Μετὰ βουλῆς οἰνοπότει

Ἡδοναῖς ἢ διδαχαῖς ἀλλοτρίαις τὸν σὸν πλοῦτον μὴ δώσεις. Μετὰ βουλῆς οἰνοπότει. Τὸν τῆς ἀληθενῆς ἀμπέλου πίνων οἶνον, τὴν τῶν Γραφῶν ἑρμηνείαν, καὶ τὴν τῶν ὄντων θεωρίαν, μετὰ πολλῆς προσέρχου διακρίσεως τῇ τῆς διανοίας ἐπισκέψει.


Δίδυμος Αλεξανδρεύς, Εἰς Παροιμίας Σολομώντος Εξηγήσεων, Κεφ ΛΑ'


Migne PG 39.1644


With prudence he drinks wine. 1

Do not spend your wealth on the pleasures of strange teachings. With prudence he drinks wine. Drinking the wine of the true vine, he ponders the interpretation of the Scriptures and the contemplation of verities with much discrimination in the exertion of the mind.


Didymus the Blind, On Proverbs, fragment  

1 Prov 31.4

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