and put a knife to your throat if you possess a large appetite.
So he went and got them, and brought them to his mother, and his mother prepared a delicious meal that his father would love.
When you sit down to dine with a ruler, consider carefully what is set before you,
Do not join those drinking too much wine or gorging on meat,
Rather, I punish my body and bring it into submission, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.
Their end is destruction—their god is their belly and their glory is in their shame. They set their minds on earthly things.)