See also: Bible says be sober again and again. Caution with the vague term ‘wine’ in communion service A minister today needs caution when using unfermented grape juice and simply calling it ‘wine’ during a communion service. Participants may become confused, unless it is specifically stated that it is not the fermented type. They may …
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NOT: how much can I get away with, yet perhaps be saved? RATHER: how much can I please the Lord in every way? ‘And if it is with difficulty that the righteous is saved, what will become of the godless man and the sinner?’ (1 Pet. 4:18; Note context: they previously attended drinking parties 1 …
Deuteronomy 14:26 simply refers to wine and fruit-cider (yayin and shekhar) at a feast. The Hebrew text does not specify ‘hard’ cider. Hard cider recieves no specific endorsement. “wine, and cider” (Deut. 14:26, Wycliffe’s Bible With Modern Spelling) See also: Bible says be sober again and again. Grape juice already called yayin (wine) in the …
Firstly: nobody is disputing that alcoholic wines existed (but non-fortified). Yet here is some of the evidence why anybody who wished to avoid all alcoholic wine was able to avoid this type in Biblical times. …the Roman writer Cato, in his treatise On Agriculture, gave this prescription: ‘If you wish to keep new wine sweet …
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Giving at one view Version, Criticism, and Exposition, in regard to all passages of Holy Writ bearing on ‘wine’ and ‘strong drink,’ or illustrating the principles of the temperance reformation. By Dr. Frederic Richard Lees, F.S.A. and Rev. Dawson Burns, M.A., 1870, National Temperance Society and Publication House, New York. View Contents on books.google.com (1868 …
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Is oinos alcoholic always in the Greek meaning? Jesus turns water into wine, but which type of wine? NOT ALL oinos wine is alcoholic. (See also: broad meaning of wine (oinos) – documented.) ‘The burden of proof here rests with the advocate of alcoholic wine…’ —Frederick Richard Lees & Dawson Burns, The Temperance Bible-Commentary When …