(40) For in Christ we are all one Body, therefore also this Spirit would heartily fain have it so, that its Fellow-Members might be refreshed with a Draught of the precious Wine Now behold!

(1) Whither stumble ye, sots, who have sopped up the wine of ignorance and can so far not carry it that ye already even spew it forth? Stay ye, be sober, gaze upwards with the [true] eyes of the heart! And if ye cannot all, yet ye at least who can! For that the ill of ignorance doth pour o`er all the earth and overwhelm the soul that's battened down within the body, preventing it from fetching port within Salvation's harbors.

(97) Woe to you who drink water from every fountain, For suddenly shall ye be consumed and wither away, Because ye have forsaken the fountain of life.

(5) According to this sacred explanation of good cheer, even Almighty God, Himself the Author of all good things, is said to be inebriated, by reason of the super-full, and beyond conception, and ineffable, immeasurableness, of the good cheer, or to speak more properly, good condition of Almighty God. For, as regards us, in the worst sense, drunkenness is both an immoderate repletion, and being out of mind and wits; so, in the best sense, respecting God, we ought not to imagine drunkenness as anything else beyond the super-full immeasurableness of all good things pre-existing in Him as Cause. But, even in respect to being out of wits, which follows upon drunkenness, we must consider the pre-eminence of Almighty God, which is above conception, in which He overtops our conception, as being above conception and above being conceived, and above being itself; and in short, Almighty God is inebriated with, and outside of, all good things whatever, as being at once a super-full hyperbole of every immeasurableness of them all; and again, as dwelling outside and beyond the whole. Starting then from these, we will take in the same fashion even the feasting of the pious, in the Kingdom of Almighty God. For He says, the King Himself will come and make them recline, and will Himself minister to them. Now these things manifest a common and concordant communion of the holy, upon the good things of God, and a church of the first born, whose names are written in heavens; and spirits of just men made perfect by all good things, and replete with all good things; and the reclining, we imagine, a cessation from their many labours, and a life without pain; and a godly citizenship in light and place of living souls, replete with every holy bliss, and an ungrudging provision of every sort of blessed goods; within which they are filled with every delight; whilst Jesus both makes them recline, and ministers to them, and furnishes this delight; and Himself bequeaths their everlasting rest; and at once distributes and pours forth the fulness of good things.

(7) And he rejoiced and drank of this wine, he and his children with joy*

(7) With a cup of pure water from the Deep shalt thou purify thy way!

(122) Now eat and drink, now trim and dress thyself therewith, and domineer therein, thou fair Goddess, how art thou become a Whore, and thy Shame and Reproach continue for ever!

(32) Every cup should be sweet to you which extinguishes thirst.

Fly from intoxication as you would from insanity.

No good originates from the body.

(7) Thou takest possession of water, and thou marchest towards the altar of Sashert: four measures of water, as was commanded by Osiris to N. Shu has handed over his wealth to N. ; they are thy bread and thy beer

(83) There is no Need of Contention about the Cup of Jesus Christ, his Body is really received in the Testament by the Faithful, as also his Heavenly Blood, and the Baptism is a Bath [or Laver] in the Water of the eternal Life, hidden in the outward [Baptism with Water,] in the Word of the Body of Christ. Therefore all Contention [or Disputation] is in vain; be in brotherly Love, and forsake the Spirit of Pride, and then you are all in Christ.

(97) Woe to you who devour the finest of the wheat, And drink wine in large bowls, And tread under foot the lowly with your might.

(75) Hearken, thou hast the sweet Water in thee, pour that into the Fire, and then it goes out: If thou lettest it burn, then it consumes in thee the Sap, that is, in all the seven qualifying or fountain Spirits, so thou wilt become dry.