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It is used in the Bible as an ancient unit of volume for grains and dry commodities, and the Torah mentions it as being equal to one tenth of an ephah. [2] According to the Jewish Encyclopedia (1906), an ephah was defined as being 72 logs , and the Log was equal to the Sumerian mina , which was itself defined as one sixtieth of a maris ; [ 3 ...
New Wine into Old Wineskins. Porter with a Wineskin, by Niko Pirosmani (before 1919) New Wine into Old Wineskins (οἶνον νέον εἰς ἀσκοὺς παλαιούς, lit.: New Wine into Old Bags) is a parable of Jesus. It is found at Matthew 9 (Matthew 9:14–17), Mark 2 (Mark 2:18–22), and Luke 5 (Luke 5:33–39).
Gleaning. The Gleaners by Jean-François Millet, 1857. Gleaning is the act of collecting leftover crops from farmers' fields after they have been commercially harvested or on fields where it is not economically profitable to harvest. It is a practice described in the Hebrew Bible that became a legally enforced entitlement of the poor in a ...
The seven bowls (Greek: φιάλας, phialas (acc. pl.), nom. sing. φιάλη, phialē; also translated as cups or vials) are a set of plagues mentioned in Revelation 16. [1] They are recorded as apocalyptic events that were seen in the vision of the Revelation of Jesus Christ, by John of Patmos. Seven angels are given seven bowls of God's ...
In the Israelite system, the ratio of the giru to the shekel was altered, and the talent, mina, and giru, later went by the names kikkar (ככר), litra, and gerah (גרה), respectively; litra being the Greek form of the Latin libra, meaning pound. [9] [40] The Israelite system was thus as follows: 1 shekel = 20 gerah; 1 litra = 60 shekels; 1 ...
Christ in the winepress or the mystical winepress[1] is a motif in Christian iconography showing Christ standing in a winepress, where Christ himself becomes the grapes in the press. [2] It derives from the interpretation by Augustine and other early theologians of a group of passages in the Bible and is found as a visual image in Christian art ...
In the New Testament, Jesus miraculously made copious amounts of wine [ 1 ] at the wedding at Cana (John 2). Wine is the most common alcoholic beverage mentioned in biblical literature, where it is a source of symbolism, [ 2 ] and was an important part of daily life in biblical times. [ 2 ][ 3 ][ 4 ] Additionally, the inhabitants of ancient ...
Jesus making wine from water in The Marriage at Cana, a 14th-century fresco from the Visoki Dečani monastery. Christian views on alcohol are varied. Throughout the first 1,800 years of Church history, Christians generally consumed alcoholic beverages as a common part of everyday life and used "the fruit of the vine" [1] in their central rite—the Eucharist or Lord's Supper.