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| | Treading the Winepress |
 | | The desert in which John the Baptist preached and baptised lay on the border with Edom, the Nabataean kingdom, devoted husbandmen, whose god Duchares the "Lord of the Winepress" of Isaiah 63, was a form of Dionysus. |
 | | They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept. |
 | | Mark 6:48 "And he saw them toiling in rowing; for the wind was contrary unto them: and about the fourth watch of the night he cometh unto them, walking upon the sea, and would have passed by them. |
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