Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881. Excerpt: ... In the parable of Jotham, tirosh is said to "cheer God and man," but this is never said of yayin. This writer, therefore, confounds tirosh with yayin, and attributes to the latter, the good qualities of the former. Such is the accuracy of this writer on sacred literature; and such is characteristic of the several statements made by him in this article on Bible wine. And his zeal for intoxicating wine is so ardent, that he presumes to affirm that the cheering effects of intoxicating wine are symbolically transferred to the Divine Being; thus associating the God of heaven with the wine-loving Bacchus of Greece and Rome. When a Christian minister can use such language as this, we need not wonder at the progress of intemperance. But he is not alone, seeing that those who hold that the "feast of Weeks " was celebrated with unrestrained indulgence, in intoxicating wine and strong drink, suppose that the God of Israel might be worshipped as Bacchus was. The New Testament. In the New Testament, we find four Greek terms requiring more or less attention in connection with the present discussion. Two of these Greek terms are rendered wine, one, strong drink, and one, vinegar. The phrase "strong drink" is the rendering of aUepa, and this word is merely the Greek form of the Hebrew word shechar, which has been already fully considered, and requires no further notice here. This Greek form of the Hebrew word shechar occurs only once in the New Testament (Luke i. 15). ofoc, oxos. Oxos is used in the Septuagint as the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew word chomets; which is another form of chamets, or fermented things. Chomets appears to be a distinctive term, descriptive of the last stage of fermentation, and a designation of fermented yayin or shechar that has become sour....
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