32 And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?
[AD 379] Basil of Caesarea on Genesis 25:31-32
This vice of gluttony delivered Adam up to death; by the pleasure of the appetite consummate evil was brought into the world. Through it Noah was mocked, Canaan was cursed, Esau was deprived of his birthright and married into a Canaanite family. Lot became his own son-in-law and father-in-law, by marrying his own daughter.