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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 Israel drank beer and wines made from fruits other than grapes, and references to these appear in scripture. [ 5 ]
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.
The biblical narrative records the positive and negative aspects of wine. Wine is a beverage of significance and import, utilized in ceremonies, for example, celebrating Abraham's military victory and successful liberation of Lot, [ 64 ] festive meals, [ 65 ] [ 66 ] and the libations comprising the sacrificial service.
§3 The wine must be natural, made from grapes of the vine, and not corrupt. [6] This means that the wine must be naturally fermented with nothing added to it, and the wine itself cannot have soured or become vinegar, nor can it have anything artificial added to it
A depiction from the Holkham Bible c. 1320 AD showing Noah and his sons making wine. Noah's wine is a colloquial allusion meaning alcoholic beverages. [1] The advent of this type of beverage and the discovery of fermentation are traditionally attributed, by explication from biblical sources, to Noah. The phrase has been used in both fictional ...
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The sense is this: 'As new wine, or must, by the violence of its fermenting spirit, and its heat, bursts the old skins, because they are worn and weak, and so there is a double loss, both of wine and skins; therefore new wine must be poured into new skins, that, being strong, they may be able to bear the force of the must: so in like manner ...
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