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| | Wine, Wine Press - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia |
 | | "Wine" is bracketed with "grain" as a basic staple (Genesis 27:28, etc.), and the failure of the winecrop or its destruction by foreigners was a terrible calamity (Deuteronomy 28:30,39; Isaiah 62:8; 65:21; Micah 6:15; Zechariah 1:13, etc.). |
 | | The superiority of old wine to new was acknowledged by the Hebrews, in common with the rest of the world (Sirach 9:10; Luke 5:39), but in the wines of Palestine acetous fermentation, changing the wine into vinegar, was likely to occur at any time. |
 | | A moderate "gladdening of the heart" through wine was not looked upon as at all reprehensible (2 Samuel 13:28; Esther 1:10; Psalms 104:15; Ecclesiastes 9:7; 10:19; Zechariah 9:15; 10:7), and while Judges 9:13 represented a mere verbal remnant of a long-obsolete concept, yet the idea contained in the verse was not thought shocking. |
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