Isaiah 29:9 Douay-Rheims

Be astonished, and wander, waver, and stagger: be drunk, and not with wine: stagger, and not with drunkenness.

John Chrysostom

A.D. 347–407 Patristic

Yes, it is possible to be drunk without wine; it is possible for a sober person to act as if he is drunk and to revel like a prodigal. If one could not get drunk without wine, the prophet would never have said, "Woe to those who are drunk not from wine"; if one could not get drunk without wine, Paul would never have said, "Do not be drunk with wine." For he said this as if there were a possibility of getting drunk some other way. And it is possible. A person can be drunk with anger, with unseemly desire, with greed, with vainglory, with ten thousand other passions. For drunkenness is nothing other than a loss of right reason, a derangement and depriving the soul of its health.

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A.D. 407 · on Isa 29:9 (DISCOURSES AGAINST JUDAIZING CHRISTIANS 8:1.1)

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