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17He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.

Proverbs 21:17

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Matthew Henry

(vv. 17)

Here is an argument against a voluptuous luxurious life, taken from the ruin it brings upon men’s temporal interests. Here is 1. The description of an epicure: He loves pleasure . God allows us to use the delights of sense soberly and temperately, wine to make glad the heart and put vigour into the spirits, and oil to make the face to shine and beautify the countenance; but he that loves these, th...

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