| Ecclesiastes 2:3
| I thought in my heart, to withdraw my flesh from wine, that I might turn my mind to wisdom, and might avoid folly, till I might see what was profitable for the children of men: and what they ought to do under the sun, all the days of their life.
| Wine, and to lead a temperate life. (Calmet) --- Protestants, "to give myself unto wine, (yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom) and to lay hold on folly," etc. (Haydock) --- I wished to indulge myself in pleasure, yet so as not to lose the reputation of wisdom, Ecclesiastes 5:9. (Haydock)
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