Wines : scriptural and ecclesiastical / by Norman Kerr.

  • Kerr, Norman, 1834-1899.
Date:
[1881]
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Credit: Wines : scriptural and ecclesiastical / by Norman Kerr. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TWO ESSENTIALLY DIFFERENT KINDS OF BIBLE WINE. Observation, experience, and science agree that alcohol is a poison to both body and brain. This is a fact beyond dispute. Intoxicating liquors (fermented wines, beers, and spirits) owe their in- toxicating properties to this poison, alcohol ; all these liquors being simply, besides a few unim- portant additional ingredients, mixtures of an irritant narcotic poison and water. The Bible is therefore in harmony with science and with fact when it speaks of a wine yayin, which is a “poison” and a “mocker.” Observation, experience, and science agree that unfermented wine is unin- toxicating, not a poisonous but a nutritious and wholesome beverage. The Bible is therefore in harmony with science and with fact when it speaks of a wine which is a “good wine,” tcaXbv olvov, kalon oinon, and a wine, 1'.!, yayin, that “ maketh glad the heart of man.” THIS SOLUTION OF THE WINE QUESTION DISPUTED BY INFIDELS. This recognition of two essentially different kinds of wine, intoxicating and unintoxicating, in-