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Does ''w1ne
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the Bible mean
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grape Juice"? What
is the answer to this perplexing question? Does it really
mean rermented wine?
Prohibitionists object saying, "But how do you
lmow tha. t the. original Hebrew and Greek. words mean fermented
wine? Certain historians say the wine used was nothing more
than molasses -- that this grape drink was nonintoxicating
and the ordinary drink or .People in Christ's time."
Here is the truth about this false idea!
There are thirteen ori ginal Hebrew and Greek words
for "wine"
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our English Bible. How can we lalow which one
means fermented wine? To find the answer, do not go to
Aristotle or Pliny, but go to the Bible i t self. By comparing
its usage, the scriptural meaning of
~can
be defined.
One of the original Hebrew words for wine is yayin.
This word is first used in Genesis 9:21 where Noah
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d.ranl(of
tbe wine and was drunken.
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This wine cau.aed drunkenness!
Was it Just grape juice or was it molasses?
In
Genesis 14:18 we . read of Melchizedek -- Jesus
Christ -- who "brought forth bread arid wine: and he was the
priest of the most high God." God Himse!"nlere gave wine to
Abraham. And again, the original Hebrew word was Aalrn-which
always means fermented
~ne.
This same Hebrew wor
s used
in Amos 9: 14 spealdiig of the coming Millennium when the people
will "plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof." They will
drink the same kind of wine that Noah:-DY overindulgence,
became drunk on.
In the New Testament, one original Greek word for
wine is oinos. Proor that it is alcoholic is given in the
story of the good Samaritan. The Samaritan poured oil and wine
on the man
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s wotmds (Luke
10:,34)
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showing that the wine had-–
enough alcoholic content to be used. as an antiseptic. Would
you pour grape juice or molasses on a wound?