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To: RightOnline
Hang on a sec. I know some of my hardshell Baptist friends say that the wine in the Bible was "fruit of the vine" and therefore not fermented, but that can't be right in view of what the bridegroom's steward said at the Marriage at Cana in John 2 - to the effect of "everybody else serves the good wine first, and then when the guests are drunk and don't care, the rotgut. But you have saved the best for last." The Greek word in John 2:10 is methuo, which means drunk, intoxicated.

And surely what Jesus and the disciples were drinking at the Last Supper was wine . . . "fruit of the vine" is traditionally fermented (it didn't keep otherwise).

58 posted on 08/06/2002 7:33:03 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother
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To: AnAmericanMother
yes. new wine was unfermented, obviously that's how it breaks old wineskins (after it ferments and expands) ... however, it must have been possible to get drunk on new wine, if one drank enough of it ...

why? because in Acts 2 the men speaking in tongues are accused of being full of "new wine" ... an obvious reference to drunkeness by some who misinterpreted the tongues event ...
66 posted on 08/06/2002 7:39:40 PM PDT by Bobby777
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