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Epicureans

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Ecclesiastes 2:1I said in my heart, ‘Pray, come, I try thee with mirth, and look thou on gladness;’ and lo, even it is vanity.Ecclesiastes 2:2Of laughter I said, ‘Foolish!’ and of mirth, ‘What is this it is doing?’Ecclesiastes 2:3I have sought in my heart to draw out with wine my appetite, (and my heart leading in wisdom), and to take hold on folly till that I see where is this—the good to the sons of man of that which they do under the heavens, the number of the days of their lives.Ecclesiastes 2:4I made great my works, I builded for me houses, I planted for me vineyards.Ecclesiastes 2:5I made for me gardens and paradises, and I planted in them trees of every fruit.Ecclesiastes 2:6I made for me pools of water, to water from them a forest shooting forth trees.Ecclesiastes 2:7I got men-servants, and maid-servants, and sons of the house were to me; also, I had much substance—herd and flock—above all who had been before me in Jerusalem.Ecclesiastes 2:8I gathered for me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces. I prepared for me men-singers and women-singers, and the luxuries of the sons of man—a wife and wives.Ecclesiastes 2:9And I became great, and increased above every one who had been before me in Jerusalem; also, my wisdom stood with me.Ecclesiastes 2:10And all that mine eyes asked I kept not back from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labour, and this hath been my portion, from all my labour,Matthew 11:18‘For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a demon;Luke 7:33‘For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and ye say, He hath a demon;Acts 17:18And certain of the Epicurean and of the Stoic philosophers, were meeting together to see him, and some were saying, ‘What would this seed picker wish to say?’ and others, ‘Of strange demons he doth seem to be an announcer;’ because Jesus and the rising again he did proclaim to them as good news,1 Corinthians 15:32if after the manner of a man with wild beasts I fought in Ephesus, what the advantage to me if the dead do not rise? let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die!