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19. ἐρῶ τῇ ψυχῇ μου. “What folly! Had thy soul been a sty, what else couldst thou have promised to it? Art thou so bestial, so ignorant of the soul’s goods, that thou pledgest it the foods of the flesh? And dost thou convey to thy soul, the things which the draught receiveth?” St Basil.
εἰς ἔτη πολλά. “Boast not thyself of tomorrow,” Pro 27:1.
ἀναπαύου, φάγε, πίε, εὐφραίνου. ‘Rest, eat, drink, enjoy.’ The absence of conjunctions (asyndeton) suits the man’s gloating selfishness, as in Sophocles, ζῆ, πῖνε, φέρβου. The motive of the Rich Glutton is the same as that of the selfish and cynical Epicureans, who say, “Let us eat and drink;” but the reason he assigns is different. They snatch pleasure, “for tomorrow we die,” 1Co 15:32; he because he hopes to be ‘happy’ for ‘many years.’ For similar warnings see Jam 4:13-17; Jam 5:1-3; Eccl. 11:19.