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To: ealgeone

Amen.


2 posted on 04/19/2019 12:08:26 PM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to says)
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To: Puppage

When very young, when I first heard this gospel, I thought ‘vinegar’ !!! (here sour wine) was the Romans being nasty to Jesus. But later, reading a little history, I learned that Roman soldiers (legions/auxiliaries) generally drank their water mixed with vinegar (usually made from low quality wine) as their normal drink (local water tastes bad or has germs which vinegar kills ... )

Here in this version they mention more clearly that the ‘sour wine’ was sitting there (crucifying is hard thirsty work) and they were simply giving him a drink of their water -— which would have been a little clearer than the more tersely worded version I heard as a kid.


12 posted on 04/19/2019 2:29:00 PM PDT by elbook
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