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Originally Posted by MissBrattified
Wine? It was vinegar and gall.
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Vinegar refers to a type of wine.
E. Sour Wine Wine that has turned sour was called Vinegar. Vinegar was used for seasoning foods (
Ruth 2:14) and pickling vegetables, as an inferior drink and as a medicine (
Jn. 19:29f.). The “wine” mentioned in
Ruth 2:14, RSV, is vinegar (Heb. ḥomeṣ; cf. ḥomeṣ yayin, Nu. 6:3 [RSV “vinegar made from wine”]; Gk. óxos, “vinegar,” Mt. 27:48;
Mk. 15:36;
Lk. 23:36;
Jn. 19:29f.). Vinegar could be deliberately produced by encouraging extra fermentation of new wine in the open air. Or wine would simply turn into vinegar, since acetic bacteria in wine turn wine sour when it is exposed to the air for any great length of time. Because impermeable containers with tight stoppers were nonexistent, wine frequently turned sour. The Greeks first solved the problem by using large clay vessels called amphorae, sometimes lined with pitch and stoppered with wax, to store wine and keep its taste intact.
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