Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1893-06-27
Authorities on Two Kinds of Wine.

AS to this argument from scholar
ship, it is sufficient to say there are
many and eminent authorities, inferior
to none and superior to most in schol-
arship, who do unhesitatingly affirm
the existence and use of unfermented
wine in Bible lands and times. They
have as complete access to the evil
dence in the case, and are as compe
tent judges of its validity and bearing
as either of the authors we have quot
ed, or as any of the authorities they
have cited.-Le0n G. Field, ID. d.
In all the passages where good wine
is named, there is no lisp of warning.
no intimation of danger, no hint of
disappr Obation, but always of decided
approval. How boldly and strongly
marked is the contrast. The one the
cause of intOxication, of violence, and
of woes; the other the occasion of com
fort and peace. The one the cause of
irreligion and self-destructiOn; the
other the devOut offering of piety on
the altar of God. The one the symbol
of divine wrath; the other the symbol
of spiritual blessings. The one the
emblem of eternal damnatiOn; the
other the emblem of eternal salvation.
-Wm. Patton, ID. ID.
"Moses Stuart's Scripture View of
the Wine Question" was the ableSt con-
tribution thirty years ago to the claim
about unfermented wine. 1t still holds
it's place unanswered and unassailable.
By his side stands DR.. Mott, head of
Union College, with the SHOWS of nine
ty winters on his brow. Around them
gather scores of scholars and divines
on both sides of the Atlantic. We do
not claim too much when we say that
the weight of scholarly authority is on
our side.-HOn. Wendell Phillips.
Christ turned water into wine. What
kind of wine? ''GOOd wine." Yes, but
Intoxicating wine is bad wine, and I'M
Intoxicating wine is good wine, SO that
the wine at the marriage at Cana must
surely have been unfermented and UNI
Intoxicating. -Normun Kerr, II. d.,
+. X. S.
think it is beyond dispute, among
the scholars of the first rank, that at
the Passover the wine used was non
Intoxicating, and that our Lord insti
tuted the Holy Supper with such
wine.-JOseph Cook.
NV final conclusion is this, viz: That
whenever the Scriptures speak of wine
as comfort, a blessing, or a ibation
of God, and rank it with such articles
as corn and oil, they mean-they can
mean-only such wine as contained no
alcohol that could have miscellaneous
tendency; that wherein they denounce
it, prohibit it, they can mean only al
cOholic or Intoxicating wine.--PrOf.
Moses Stuart, d. ID.
The Jews do not, in their feasts for
sacred purposes, including the mar
riage feast, ever use any kind of fer
mented drinks. In their oblations and
libations, both private and public, they
employ the fruit of the vine--that is,
fresh grapes -unfermented grape-juice
and raisins as the symbol of benedic-
ton. Fermentation is to them always
a symbol of corruption, as in nature
and science it is in itself decay, rotten
ness.-Dr. S. If. Isdacs.
All who know of the wines then used
viii understand the unfermented juice
of the grape. The present wines of
Jerusalem and Lebanon, as we tasted
them, were commonly boiled and sweet,
without intoxicating qualities, such as
we here get in liquors called wines.
Those were esteemed the best wines
which were least strong.-Wm. M. ia
eObus.
1t is sufficient here to state. for the
satisfaction of the reader not acquaint-
ed with the original languages of the
Old and New Testaments, or the his
tory of discussions ON the subject, that
there is broad, unmistakable, and