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I Esdras 3:10-20
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The first wrote, Wine is the strongest.
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The second wrote, The king is strongest.
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The third wrote, Women are strongest: but above all things Truth beareth away the victory.
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Now when the king was risen up, they took their writings, and delivered them unto him, and so he read them:
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And sending forth he called all the princes of Persia and Media, and the governors, and the captains, and the lieutenants, and the chief officers;
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And sat him down in the royal seat of judgment; and the writings were read before them.
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And he said, Call the young men, and they shall declare their own sentences. So they were called, and came in.
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And he said unto them, Declare unto us your mind concerning the writings. Then began the first, who had spoken of the strength of wine;
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And he said thus, O ye men, how exceeding strong is wine! it causeth all men to err that drink it:
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It maketh the mind of the king and of the fatherless child to be all one; of the bondman and of the freeman, of the poor man and of the rich:
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It turneth also every thought into jollity and mirth, so that a man remembereth neither sorrow nor debt:
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