The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-08-18


The Passover Wine--was the wine
used by Christ and his disciples at
the last Cor passover) supper, just
before the crucifixion. Fermented
or unfermented? If we can ascer-
tain with certainty the character of
the wine employed by the Jews in
the passover feast, we shall be able
to settle this question:
1st--The ancients understood, as
we do, that the process of fermen-
tation is one Of putrefaction and
decay.
2ndly-Not only leavened or fer
mented bread was forbidden, but all
fermented things. Says DR.. Kitto
in his Gland Book to the Bible"
"All fermented substances were pro-
hibitcd during the paschal feast of
the Jews, and during the succeeding
seven days. Hence the passover
was called the "feast of the un-
leavened," the word bread not being
found in the original.
3rdly-If the body of Christ was
necessarily represented by bread
which was absolutely free from fer
ment, surely his blood-"which is
the life'-should be represented by
wine equally free from putrefactive
elements. In view of the above
facts and of the actual words used
by Christ himself at the celebration,
"the fruit Of the vine," and, "drink
it ne,c with you in my fathers king
dom," can there be any reasonable
doubt as to the character of the wine
in that memorable cup?
Drink no longer water but use Il little
wine for thy stomach's sake.-l T'imo-
thy 1923.
This text is quoted by moderate
drinkers as a stronghold, but the
wine which Paul recommended was
such as would be good for Timothy's
stomach. Alcoholic wines are noto-
riously bad for even a healthy sto-
mach. They interfere with digestion
and are prolific cause Of dyspepsia.
Unfermented wine on the other hand
has just the opposite properties. 1t
is most wholesome article and was
much esteemed by Paul's contem-
poraries for the very purpose for
which he recommended it to limo
thy. Athenaus recommended sweet
wine as ''being very good for the
stomach. :"
DR.. b. w. Richardson, f. r. S.,
on his Canter Lectures on alcohol
delivered before the Society of Arts,
London, in 1874, describing ancient
wines, mentions medicinal wines of
the ancient Romans at page % he
says: "Certain wines named Myn-
dian, Halecarnassian, Rodian, and
Coan, were made with (added) salt
water. They were considered not
to be Intoxicating and to promote
digestion. Two wines, Conidian
and Adrian, were also medicinal
wines. The first it was believed
engendered blood, and was at the
same time laxative, the second was
a diaphoretic. Mustum was term
applied to wine newly made of the
first juice of the grape. Protopum
was the juice which runs from the
grapes without pressing. Mulsun
was mixture of wine and honey.
Sapa was mustum boiled to third
Defretum was the same reduced tc
half"
In presence of such a selection Of
good wines is it probable that Pau
would have recommended fermenteC
wine which Pliny, Philo, and Colum
ella wrote that they produced "head
aches, dropsy, madness, and stomach
| complaints?"
I have said more than enough t.
prove that the position assumed b,
| your correspondent on behalf o.
, Intoxicating wine (still the leas
{ injurious of all Intoxicating liquids.
, is wholly untenable and finds NJ
support in Scripture, in history, o
in scientific deduction.
. ITO he cOntinued.)