Prior Book | Prior Chapter | Prior Verse | Next Verse | Next Chapter | Next Book | Viewing NASB and Amplified 2015 | |
NASB | Matthew 26:29 "But I say to you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father's kingdom." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 26:29 "But I say to you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father's kingdom." |
Subject: What is 'the fruit of the vine'? |
Bible Note: Again, your Hebrew has me at a disadvantage. A shame that a linguist like myself hasn't got around to learning the Hebrew and Greek yet! In any case, what is the Hebrew word used here, and where else is it used to unquestionably refer to an unfermented drink? Also, we see wine associated with gladness in verses like these: "You have put gladness in my heart, More than when their grain and new wine abound." --Psalm 4:7 'Instead, there is gaiety and gladness, Killing of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, Eating of meat and drinking of wine: "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we may die."' --Isaiah 22:13 "Ephraim will be like a mighty man, And their heart will be glad as if from wine; Indeed, their children will see it and be glad, Their heart will rejoice in the LORD." --Zechariah 10:7 What is the word used for "wine" here, and what is it about wine that makes these people so incredibly glad all the time? :) I don't think we have to MAKE the verse a reference to a fermented drink; I really have no other agenda here than to keep man's teachings from being forced onto the biblical text. If it is reasonable to say that the wine in the passages I have quoted could be fermented, the burden is on someone else to demonstrate that it is definitely NOT so. And again, I am sure that you understand my claim that there is no prohibition against a proper, contextual use of alcohol is in any way a license to sin by being a drunkard. I am not fighting for my right for my "three glasses a day." However, I do not see how the distinctly American prohibition on ANY alcohol use can be anything but a cultural more within many branches of evangelicalism here. --Joe! |