To: DocRock
Then at the "Last Supper" Jesus passed around wine to His disciples. Since this was six to seven months after the grape harvest and since there was no way to preserve grape juice, this also had to be fermented wine. (The actual phrase is "fruit of the vine," but, as pointed out by The New Westminster Dictionary of the Bible, this expression was "employed by the Jews from time immemorial for the wine partaken of on sacred occasions, as at the Passover and on the evening of the Sabbath. The Greeks also used the term as a synonym of wine which was capable of intoxication.") http://www.biblestudy.org/basicart/chrdrink.html
76 posted on
03/04/2008 6:48:13 PM PST by
brytlea
(amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
To: brytlea
77 posted on
03/04/2008 7:30:51 PM PST by
DocRock
(All they that TAKE the sword shall perish with the sword. Matthew 26:52 Gun grabbers beware.)
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