The Temperance, Bible-Commentary: Giving at One View, Version, Criticism, and Exposition, in Regard to All Passages of Holy Writ Bearing on 'Wine' and 'Strong Drink, ' Or Illustrating the Principles of the Temperance Reformation (Classic Reprint)

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Accordingly, when the Temperance Reformation began, some of the earliest arguments brought against it were borrowed (as was supposed) from the armoury of Scripture. Texts; and down to the present time many who hold aloof from that cause, defend their estrangement by a Similar appeal to Scripture precedent and approval. Some even now go the length of Charging Abstainers with a conduct at variance not only with the privileges, but with the duties of the Christian dispensation, and accuse them of seeking to impose a code of asceticism contrary to the genial and liberal Spirit of the Gospel. In controverting what have been represented as the views of Temperance writers upon the wines named in Scripture, some critics have igno rantly attributed to them the most absurd positions - such as that all those Wines were unfermented and uninebriating, - while they them selves have neglected to distinguish between the various terms trans lated 'wine, ' and have confounded the use of intoxicating liquor by men of old, and the permission of such use, with the express sanction and blessing of God.

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