Philo Judaeus, De Ebrietate, ed. Paul Wendland, 222

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[222] ἀλλὰ καὶ τότε ὅμως ἡ ἄπληστος ἐν αὐτοῖς ὄρεξις ὥσπερ ἔτι λιμώττουσα μαιμάζει· „ἐκ γὰρ τῆς ἀμπέλου Σοδόμων ἡ ἄμπελος αὐτῶν„ ᾧ φησι Μωυσῆς „καὶ ἡ κληματὶς αὐτῶν ἐκ Γομόρρας·
ἡ σταφυλὴ αὐτῶν σταφυλὴ χολῆς, βότρυς πικρίας αὐτοῖς· θυμὸς δρακόντων ὁ οἶνος αὐτῶν, καὶ θυμὸς ἀσπίδων ἀνίατος“ (Deut. 32,32.33)· Σόδομα μέντοι στείρωσις καὶ τύφλωσις ἑρμηνεύεται, ἀμπέλῳ δὲ καὶ τοῖς ἐξ αὐτῆς γινομένοις ἀπεικάζει τοὺς οἰνοφλυγίας καὶ λαιμαργίας καὶ τῶν αἰσχίστων ἡδονῶν ἥττους.

De Ebrietate. Philo Judaeus. ed. Paul Wendland. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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De Ebrietate (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 2. Wendland, Paul, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1897.)

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On Drunkenness First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 1. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 222 focus

[222] But even then, nevertheless, the insatiable desire which exists within them continues to rage as though it were still under the influence of hunger. "For their wine is of the vine of Sodom," as Moses says, "and their tendrils are from Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of gall, and their branches are bitter branches. The rage of dragons is their wine, and the incurable fury of serpents." ¹ The interpretation of the name Sodom is "barrenness and blindness." But Moses here compares those who are the slaves of greediness for wine and general gluttony, and of other most disgraceful pleasures to a vine, and to the different products of the vine;

Philo Judaeus De Ebrietate 222

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