"... Significantly, it has been suggested that Raguel makes his statement with the thought that Tobiah, like Sarah's previous seven husbands, is doomed to death. Such enjoyment, specifically framed as a triad of eating, drinking and taking pleasure, is linked with eventual or even imminent death in Jewish and Christian sacred writings. 'Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die' is found in Isaiah 22:13. The phrase 'eat, drink, and be merry' also occurs without the mention of imminent death in Qohelet 8:15, but with a clear awareness of eventual demise. Compare also Luke 12:20 where the rich man in the parable plans to eat, drink, and be merry, unaware that he is to die that night and the quotation of Isaiah in 1 Corinthians 15:32. Clearly, the implications of this cluster of actions are reasonably well-attested. To be sure, some scholars have claimed that Raguel in this passage was merely trying to put an impatient Tobiah at ease are within the realm of the possible. We suggest, however, that situating this statement within wider attested traditions is less problematic than making claims about character that cannot be definitely proven. This is especially the case given our observations made earlier that issues of character, however a modern reading might discern them, may not be important to writings of this genre ..."