(18) If a man has a wayward and defiant son, who does not heed his father or mother and does not obey them even after they discipline him, (19) his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his town at the public place of his community. (20) They shall say to the elders of his town, “This son of ours is disloyal and defiant; he does not heed us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.” (21) Thereupon the men of his town shall stone him to death. Thus you will sweep out evil from your midst: all Israel will hear and be afraid.
(2) insubordinate as in “like a headstrong cow” [Hosea 4: 16], meaning he does not observe the positive commandments.
(1) מורה, obstinate, vexing. The word occurs in this sense in Lamentations 1,20 מרה, מריתי, “I kept disobeying.”
(3) rebellious regarding the negative commandments.
(ב) וסובא. מרבה לשתות והוא המשתכר והנה זה כמו אפיקורום כי לא יבקש חיי העוה״ז כי אם להתענג בכל מיני מאכל ומשתה.
(2) drunkard someone who drinks excessively, to the extent that he gets drunk. Such a person resembles a follower of Epicuros, for he seeks from the life of this world only pleasure, through all kinds of food and drink.