“Wine” and “strong drink” are personified as themselves doing what they make men do. The latter (see Leviticus 10:9 note) is here, probably, the “p…

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging—that is, producing these effects in those who subject themselves to their power.…

Wine [is] a mocker, strong drink [is] raging Wine deceives a man; it not only overcomes him before he is aware, but it pr…

It seems hard to believe that men of the greatest abilities, as well as the ignorant, should render themselves fools and madmen, merely for the tas…