The Wine of the Bible, of Bible Lands, and of the Lord's Supper [pp. 564-595]

1871.] of Bible Lands, and of the Lord's Supper.
was the song of the drinkers of shechar,' A. V.' drunkards;'
Prov. xx. 1:'Wine is a mocker, shechar is raging, and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise;' Prov. xxxi. 4, 5:' It is
not for kings to drink wine, nor for princes shechar, lest they
drink and forget the law;' Is. v. 22:'Woe unto them that
are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle shechar;' Is. xxviii. 7:'They also have erred through wine,
and through shechar are out of the way: the priest and the
prophet have erred through shechar, they are swallowed up of
wine, they are out of the way through shechar;' Is. xxix. 9:
'They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not
with shechar.'
"Shecharmay have been a sweet beverage, as sugary as Dr. Lees
or any one else chooses; but it was most certainly intoxicating.
"5. tat, Asis, from tt_ to tread; LXX. vapa,,yXvicacruo'g, o,ivo
veo, Ae", Targ. n-_'m, pure wine; Vulg. dulcedo, mustum;
must, that which is expressed from grapes by treading, or from
pomegranates (Ges. Thes. 1054). Henderson says:'By asis is
meant thefresh wine, or juice of the grape or other fruit which has
just been pressed out, and is remarkable for its sweet flavor and
its freedom from intoxicating qualities' (Corn. on Joel i. 5). Yet
its intoxicating quality seems intimated in Is. xlix. 26:' They
shall be drunken with their own blood as with sweet wine'
(hasis); Joel i. 5:' Awake, ye drunkards, and weep... because
of the new wine (hasis); for it is cut off from your mouth.' It
is promised by God as a blessing, Joel iii. 17, 18; Amos ix. 13.
"6.,b, sobS, from bt, saba,.potavit, idque intemperantius,
gurgitavit, to drink to excess, to tope (Ges. Thes. 932); LXX.
o&vog; Vulg. Vinum. The noun occurs only in two places, but
the verb and participle often; the latter to denote drunk, a
drunkard, a toper. Gesenius renders the noun in Is. i. 22
vinum, but in Hos. iv. 18, cornpmotatio, a drinking bout, a carouse; so Henderson, Dathe, etc. The LXX. must have followed a various reading in this place. SobS, then, means some
(or perhaps any) kind of intoxicating drink.
" 7.., mesek, from:t?, masak, miscere, to mix, to mingle; wine mixed with water or aromatics; LXX. Kepao'.la;
Vulg. Mistum. It occurs only once, Ps. lxxv. 9; but the particil)ial noun:t., mtmsak, in Prov. xxiii. 30, Is. lxv. 11, inll a
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