not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;
The wine in those days, of course, was drank by just about everybody. It was mixed three parts of water to two parts of wine. And of course, at that ratio it would take an awful lot to get a person drunk and usually you'd get too full before you could get drunk. But it was a diluted form and really, it was drunk in lieu of the water which in many places was not fit to drink. You remember Paul said to Timothy to "take a little wine for your stomach's sake and your oft infirmities" ( 1 Timothy 5:23 ).