Wines : scriptural and ecclesiastical / by Norman Kerr.

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

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    jurious and beneficial, so harmonizes the Bible with science and with fact, that it has been persistently disputed by infidels. In an article in the “West- minster Review” for January, 1875, the writer says, “ It was reserved for the end of His career to im- part the most solemn sanction to the use of wine by an act which even unbelievers in inspiration (not always the worst friends to Jesus’ real fame) will admit to be historical. His ministry com- mences with the production of fermented liquors ; it closes with their sanctification. The one kind of drink, the manufacture of which is rendered in- cumbent on man—from which it has been ordained that no man who literally follows the orders of Jesus can entirely abstain—is precisely a form of strong drink, the fermented juice of the grape.” That Christians who hold the social use of in- toxicating wines to be sanctioned by our Lord and by the Bible may know the effect of this inter- pretation of the sacred writings, I append the following extract from the article just referred to: “ There arc some passages in which hilarity seems to be condoned, if not actually commended. When Joseph, that type of every virtue, entertains his brethren, they all get drunk together. The Hebrew word used is precisely that employed to designate the drunkenness of Noah. We do not suppose