John Trapp on Matthew 24:38

Verse 38. They were eating, and drinking] Wine, likely; because our Saviour hereupon bids his Apostles take heed to themselves lest their hearts at any time should be overcharged with surfetting and drunkennesse, &c, Luk. 21. 34. Like as some do not improbably conjecture, that Nadab and [illegible: 1 word] were in their drink, when they offered strange fire, because after, they were devoured by fire from the Lord. Aaron and the Priests are charged to drink no wine nor strong drink, when they go into the [illegible: 1 word] of the Congregation, lest they dye, Levit. 10. 12, 8, 9. St Luke delivers the matter more roundly by an elegant, Asyndeton, They ate, they drank, they married, &c. q. d. they passed without intermission, from eating, to drinking, from drinking, to marrying, &c. they followed it close, as if it had been their work, and they born for no other end. Of Ninias, second King of Assyrians, Nephew haply to these Antedihunian belly-Gods, it is said, that he was old excellent at eating and drinking. And of [non-Latin text not transcribed]. Sardanapulus, one of the same line, Tully tells us, that his gut was his god. Summum bonum in ventre, aut sub ventre posuit: Athenae. [illegible: 1 word]. lib 2. and [illegible: 1 word], that he hired men to devise new pleasures for him. [illegible: 1 word]. quaest. [illegible: 1 word]. See my Common-place of Abstinence.Plut. in Sympos. Untill the day] They were set upon't, and would loose no time. Their destruction was foretold them to a day; they were nothing bettered by it: no more would wicked men, should they foreknow the very instant of Christs coming to judgement. Joseph had foretold the famine of Egypt and the time when it [illegible: 1 word] come; but fullnesse bred forgetfullnesse; saturity, security: None observed, or provided for it.