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Is It Actually in the Bible?
Phrases people quote as Scripture. The real verse, or the honest answer that there is not one.
"Lest your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting" means being charged too much money for your indulgences
"Overcharged" meant weighed down or burdened, nothing to do with price.
Luke 21:34, in every translation this tool compares.
Luke 21:34 warns, "take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life." "Charge" here comes from the same root as "cargo" and a cart's "load" (Latin "carricare," to load); to be "overcharged" is to be overloaded or weighed down, in this case by excess and worry, so that spiritual alertness gets crushed under the load.
The financial sense of "charge" (billing someone money) is a later specialization of the same "load" idea (you're "charged" a cost) that has now become the dominant meaning of the word, leaving modern readers picturing an unfair bill rather than a burdened, weighed-down heart.
