Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
KJV
Greek original
Louis Segond 1910
Ne continue pas à ne boire que de l'eau; mais fais usage d'un peu de vin, à cause de ton estomac et de tes fréquentes indispositions.
KJV
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
Epiphanius
Panarion (Adversus Haereses)
en. 1, 28 — 9 Matth. 19, 6 Mark. 10, 9 — 10 Hebr. 13, 4 — 10 f zu diesem Vorwurf genen Paulus (wegen I Tim. 5, 23?) vgl. Hieronymus prol. in ep. ad Titum; Migne 26, 356 Tatianus, Encratitarum patriarches, qui et ipse nonnullas Pauli epistolas repudiavit, hanc vel maxime hoc est a…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
Therefore it seems unlawful to use wine under the Christian law. On the contrary, The Apostle says ( 1 Tim. 5:23 ): "Do not still drink water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake, and thy frequent infirmities"; and it is written ( Ecclus. 31:36 ): "Wine drunken with mode…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 103 (Migne)
modico vino utere, propter stomachi dolorem et propter frequentes [Col. 0636D] tuas infirmitates (I Tim. V, 23) . Ac per hoc nihil contra abstinentiam faciunt, qui vinum non pro ebrietate, sed tantum pro corporis salute percipiunt; nec hoc eis offert voluntas, sed permittit inf…
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