Wine and oil - i. e., The costly adjuncts of a princely banquet. The price of oil or precious unguent was about equal to the 300 days’ wages of a field laborer Matthew 20:2. Indulgence in such a luxury would thus become the type of all extravagance and excess.
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Proverbs 21:17
17 He that loveth pleasurec shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.