1 Esdras 3:17-19
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
17 They said to them, ‘Explain to us what you have written.’
The Speech about Wine
Then the first, who had spoken of the strength of wine, began and said: 18 ‘Gentlemen, how is wine the strongest? It leads astray the minds of all who drink it. 19 It makes equal the mind of the king and the orphan, of the slave and the free, of the poor and the rich.
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