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Re: Social drinking?
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Originally Posted by Sean
True, but why did Jesus refuse the wine on the cross?...was he masochistic(into the raw pain) as one has suggested, or did he partake in a vow against strong drink at some time(as soon as he tasted it, he spit it out). It is written in the Bible for a reason you know....
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Wine? It was vinegar and gall.
(gall: “gall” or bile, i. e. (by analogy) poison or an anodyne (wormwood, poppy, etc.):— gall.
AV (2)- gall 2; bile, gall in the OT used of other bitter things wormwood possibly myrrh)
That would be vinegar + a painkiller of some sort, most likely.
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