Deuteronomy 21:20
And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
Deuteronomy 21:20 is the parents' formal testimony brought before the elders and rulers of the city concerning their son, declaring him stubborn and rebellious and unwilling to obey their voice. It belongs to the Bible's directions for dealing with a persistently rebellious son, and concerns one whose rebellion continues after his parents have disciplined him, when he still refuses correction. The charge names him as a glutton and a drunkard, placing gluttony alongside drunkenness as the offense, evidence, trait and sign of that stubborn rebellion.
Intemperate appetite is thus joined to disobedience and rebellion, showing gluttony to be a mark of serious disobedience. To be a glutton in the sense of the verse is to indulge appetite without restraint and to gorge upon whatever is craved, refusing correction while gratifying desire. For such a son brought before Israel's rulers the prescribed penalty was death, by stoning.
Such a glutton becomes useless to others and harmful to himself, unreliable and corrupting in influence, which warns against letting appetite rule reason. Children taught from infancy to indulge their appetites are being prepared to become such gluttons. Youth allowed through indulgent habits and erroneous education to gratify appetite can grow up governed by impulse and unable to resist temptation.