Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
Be not among winebibbers, among riotous eaters of flesh, forbids both joining the company of those given to excess in eating and drinking and taking up their habits, including those who drink to excess and those who indulge in eating meat and in overeating. The company to be avoided is that of drunkards and excessive eaters, and the warning reaches to gluttony fostered by indulgence even in children. It treats drunkenness and gluttony together as destructive, intemperate appetites, linking the drunkard with the glutton and the indolent whose excess ends in poverty and want.
Appetite must be governed rather than indulged at the cost of health, since overeating or eating unhealthy food weakens the power to resist other appetites and passions. Eating more than the body can use is sinful even when the food is simple and wholesome, for such overeating burdens digestion, weakens the body and the intellect, and prostrates the energies of the soul. The warning covers even plain, nourishing food eaten to excess by those weakened by self-indulgence when their appetite returns. It likewise covers excess driven by an artificial appetite through elaborate cookery and a variety of tempting dishes.
Indulging a perverted appetite in this way harms people, debases the physical, mental, and moral faculties, and naturally leads to sickness. The warning applies to parents and educators who by indulgence train children to become gluttons and winebibbers, harming health and weakening both body and mind. Indulgence begun in youth through defective training can enslave youth to appetite, as seen also with tobacco, leaving the person governed by impulse and unable to resist temptation, with the glutton and the winebibber displaying the harmful result of self-indulgence and poor training.
Be not among winebibbers, among riotous eaters of flesh, forbids both joining the company of those given to excess in eating and drinking and taking up their habits, including those who drink to excess and those who indulge in eating meat and in overeating. The company to be avoided is that of drunkards and excessive eaters, and the warning reaches to gluttony fostered by indulgence even in children. It treats drunkenness and gluttony together as destructive, intemperate appetites, linking the drunkard with the glutton and the indolent whose excess ends in poverty and want.
Appetite must be governed rather than indulged at the cost of health, since overeating or eating unhealthy food weakens the power to resist other appetites and passions. Eating more than the body can use is sinful even when the food is simple and wholesome, for such overeating burdens digestion, weakens the body and the intellect, and prostrates the energies of the soul. The warning covers even plain, nourishing food eaten to excess by those weakened by self-indulgence when their appetite returns. It likewise covers excess driven by an artificial appetite through elaborate cookery and a variety of tempting dishes.
Indulging a perverted appetite in this way harms people, debases the physical, mental, and moral faculties, and naturally leads to sickness. The warning applies to parents and educators who by indulgence train children to become gluttons and winebibbers, harming health and weakening both body and mind. Indulgence begun in youth through defective training can enslave youth to appetite, as seen also with tobacco, leaving the person governed by impulse and unable to resist temptation, with the glutton and the winebibber displaying the harmful result of self-indulgence and poor training.