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NASB | 1 Timothy 5:23 ¶ No longer drink water exclusively, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Timothy 5:23 ¶ No longer continue drinking [only] water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent illnesses. |
Subject: wine and acohol |
Bible Note: mitelt Let me add. Grape juice will go bad or turn vinegar before it turns to wine unless sugar is added and very sterile conditions are met. Alcohol is made as the bacteria ingests the natural sugar in the juice. However without the addition of sugar the bacteria only produces a very minimal amount of alcohol about 1 percent not enough to kill the bad yeast and the bacteria that will spoil the wine. Once all the sugar is gone the wine will quickly (measured in hours) become vinegar. In another thread I have been challenged on this point and they went to a local winery. There they learned basically what I'm saying is right. If the skins are used an alcoholic content a little higher can be reached by the resulting product has a very bad smell. Read will choke a goat. The old myth that they made wine to preserve the juice simply would not work given their sanitary conditions. In various books on the subject experts in this area state they sun dried a juice into what we would call a fruit rollup that was later dissolved in water. Also they made a very think paste that also was mixed with water. The other idea that they had to drink wine instead of water, because of the pour quality of the water, is nonsense. Muslims live in the same region drink the same water and alcohol is forbidden in Islam. Also again the alcoholic content of natural fermented wine is so low it would not kill one germ or bacteria. As to your bread yeast being the same thing there is one major difference, yeast in bread produces Co2 a gas and then the whole thing is baked which drives the gases out. In but with alcohol it is the final product and it is not cooked. I’ll stick to bread thank you. EdB |