"The _one_ the cause of intoxication, of violence, and of woes; "The _other_ the occasion of comfort and of peace. "The _one_ the cause of irreligion and of self-destruction; "The _other_ the devout offering of piety on the altar of God. "The _one_ the symbol of the divine wrath; "The _other_ the symbol of spiritual blessings. "The _one_ the emblem of eternal damnation; "The _other_ the emblem of eternal salvation."--_Bible Wines_. "The distinction in _quality_ between the good and the bad wine is as clear as that between good and bad men, or good and bad wives, or good and bad spirits; for one is the constant subject of warning, designated poison literally, analogically, and figuratively; while the other is commended as refreshing and innocent, which no alcoholic wine is."--_Lees' Appendix_, p. 232. _Tirosh_ is another Hebrew word that is often used in the Old Testament for grapes and the juice of grapes, like our word must, but it is rarely if ever applied to the juice after fermentation has commenced. We read: "They shall gather together corn and new wine (_tirosh_), they shall eat together and praise Jehovah, and _they who are gathered together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness_."--Isaiah lxii, 9. And again, in regard to _tirosh_, we read: "That thou mayest gather in thy corn, thy wine (_tirosh_), and thine oil." (Deut. xi, 14.) "Thus saith the Lord, as the new wine (_tirosh_) is found in the cluster, and _one_ saith destroy it not, for a blessing is in it." (Isaiah lxv, 8.) "And thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God in the place He shall choose, the tithe of thy corn and wine (_tirosh_)." (Deut. xiv, 22.) Here we see that _tirosh_ was to be eaten. The word _tirosh_ occurs thirty-eight times in the Hebrew Bible. It is translated into Greek, in the Septuagint, by [seventy] distinguished Hebrew scholars, about three centuries before the Christian era, as follows: "The LXX renders _tirosh_ in every case but two by _oinos_ (the Greek word for wine), the generic name for _yayin_." Now, are we for a moment to suppose that the above seventy distinguished ancient scholars did not understand as well what was included under the name of wine in their day, as does the writer in the _Christian Union_ to-day, when they classed the unfermented juice of grapes with wine, and called it wine? How can the above writer say that "there was but one kind of wine known to the ancients--fermented grape juice"? Unfermented wine not known to the ancients, indeed! How utterly contrary to the truth, and to well-known facts, is such a statement. Just look a moment, gentle reader-- "Aristotle ('Meteorologica,' iv, 9) says of the sweet wine of his day ([Greek Text]), that it did not intoxicate ([Greek Text]). And Athenaeus ('Banquet,' ii, 24) makes a similar statement."--_Oinos_.