• Title Page
• Introduction
• Personal Involvment
• The Question Regarding the Identity of Wine
• Ancient Methods to Preserve Juice
• Ancients Use and Terms
• The Scriptures
• Specific Passages
  • Genesis 40:11, the Wine of Egypt
  • Matthew 9:17, New Wine and Old Bottles
  • Matthew 11:18,19, Christ Eating and Drinking
  • Matthew 21:33
  • Matthew 24:38
  • Matthew 24:49
  • Matthew 26:26-27, the Lord’s Supper
  • Mark 2:22
  • Mark 12:1
  • Mark 14:23-25
  • Mark 15:23
  • Luke 1:15
  • Luke 5:37-39
  • Luke 7:33-35
  • Luke 10:7
  • Luke 10:34
  • Luke 12:19
  • Luke 12:45
  • Luke 17:27-28
  • Luke 20:9
  • Luke 21:34
  • John 2:1-11, Wedding-Wine at Cana
  • Acts 2:13, Full of New Wine
  • Acts 24:25
  • Romans 13:13
  • Romans 14:13, Stumbling-Blocks
  • Romans 14:14-21, Expediency
  • I Corinthians 6:9-11
  • I Corinthians 6:12
  • I Corinthians 8:4-13
  • I Corinthians 9:25
  • I Corinthians 10:22-30
  • I Corinthians 11:20-34
  • Galatians 5:19-24
  • Ephesians 5:18
  • Philippians 4:5
  • Colossians 2:16
  • I Thessalonians 5:7
  • I Timothy 3:2-3
  • I Timothy 3:8
  • I Timothy 3:11
  • I Timothy 4:4
  • I Timothy 5:23
  • Titus 1:7-8
  • Titus 2:2-3
  • I Peter 1:13
  • I Peter 4:1-5
  • I Peter 4:7
  • I Peter 5:8
  • II Peter 1:6
  • Revelation
• Testimony

bad wine is as clear as that between good and bad men, or good and bad wives, or good and bad spirits; for one is the constant subject of warning, designated poison literally, analogically, and figuratively, while the other is commended as refreshing and innocent, which no alcoholic wine is”—Lees’ Appendix, p. 232

Can it be that these blessings and curses refer to the same beverage, and that an intoxicating liquor? Does the trumpet give a certain or an uncertain sound? Says Rev. Dr. Nott: “Can the same thing, in the same state, be good and bad; a symbol of wrath, and a symbol of mercy; a thing to be sought after, and a thing to be avoided? Certainly not. And is the Bible, then, inconsistent with itself? No, certainly”—Nott, London Ed. p. 48.

Professor M. Stuart, p. 49, says: “My final conclusion is this, viz., that whenever the Scriptures speak of wine as a comfort, a blessing, or a libation to 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 a mischievous tendency; that wherever they denounce it, and connect it with drunkenness and reveling, they can mean only alcoholic or intoxicating wine.”

But the position of the advocates of only one kind of wine is that “the juice of the grape, when called wine, was always fermented, and, being fermented, was always intoxicating;” “that fermentation is the essence of wine.” One exception will destroy the universality of this sweeping statement.

Specific Passages

Genesis 40:11, the Wine of Egypt

Genesis 40:11: “I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand.”