Post by Doc on Jul 20, 2008 0:25:01 GMT -5
www.tgorski.com/news_analysis/public_policy/Drug%20Control%20Policy/drug_time_line.htm
from there:
Event #5: 2000 B.C. Earliest record of prohibitionist teaching, by an Egyptian priest, who writes to his pupil: "I, thy superior, forbid thee to go to the taverns. Thou art degraded like beasts." [W.F. Crafts *et al*., *Intoxicating Drinks and Drugs*, p. 5]
Event #6: 350 B.C. Proverbs, 31:6-7: "Give strong drink to him who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress; let them drink and forget their poverty, and remember their misery no more."
Event #7: 300 B.C. Theophrastus (371-287 B.C.), Greek naturalist and philosopher, records what has remained as the earliest undisputed reference to the use of poppy juice.
Event #8: 250 B.C. Psalms, 104:14-15: "Thou dost cause grass to grow for the cattle and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food from the earth, and wine to gladden the heart of man.
So, the Egyptian preaches against going into a tavern....
And the old testament recommends wine for mood stabilization, and "strong drink" (likely poppy juice or other opiate form mixed into wine) for he dying or very ill.
Of course, elsewhere it warns people to not "tarry long with wine."
and from:
www.unification.net/ws/theme065.htm
comes this from old testament:
Who has woe? Who has sorrow?
Who has strife? Who has complaining?
Who has wounds without cause?
Who has redness of eyes?
Those who tarry long after wine,
those who go to try mixed wine.
Do not look at wine when it is red,
when it sparkles in the cup
and goes down smoothly.
At the last it bites like a serpent,
and stings like an adder.
Your eyes will see strange things,
and your mind utter perverse things.
You will be one who lies down in the midst of the [rolling] sea,
like one who totters to and fro like the top of a mast.
"They struck me," you will say, "but I was not hurt;
they beat me, but I did not feel it.
When shall I awake?
I will seek another drink."
Sounds familiar. Who has redness of eyes? Bloodshot eyes? Me? How'd they know?
www.sacred-texts.com/bib/ebd/ebd382.htm
comes this:
Mesek , "a mixture," mixed or spiced wine, not diluted with water, but mixed with drugs and spices to increase its strength, or, as some think, mingled with the lees by being shaken (Psa 75:8; Pro 23:30). In Act 2:13 the word gleukos , rendered "new wine," denotes properly "sweet wine." It must have been intoxicating. In addition to wine the Hebrews also made use of what they called debash , which was obtained by boiling down must to one-half or one-third of its original bulk. In Gen 43:11 this word is rendered "honey." It was a kind of syrup, and is called by the Arabs at the present day dibs . This word occurs in the phrase "a land flowing with milk and honey" (debash), Exo 3:8, Exo 3:17; Exo 13:5; Exo 33:3; Lev 20:24; Num 13:27. (See HONEY.) Our Lord miraculously supplied wine at the marriage feast in Cana of Galilee (Joh 2:1).
So, King James uses honey to translate an Hebrew word that refers to a sort of grape/mash/fermented/syrupy concoction--slightly alcoholic. God led the Israelites into a land filled with MILK and a mildly fermented
brew. Well, if they had had a little itty-bit of chocolate to mix with that, they could have enjoyed a drink a little like my fave--Bailey's Irish Creme. Well, they did have carob.
What if the familiar and wonderful taste of Bailey's was, in a crude form, known to early mankind? I love that idea. OK, its stupid, but I love the idea anyway.
from there:
Event #5: 2000 B.C. Earliest record of prohibitionist teaching, by an Egyptian priest, who writes to his pupil: "I, thy superior, forbid thee to go to the taverns. Thou art degraded like beasts." [W.F. Crafts *et al*., *Intoxicating Drinks and Drugs*, p. 5]
Event #6: 350 B.C. Proverbs, 31:6-7: "Give strong drink to him who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress; let them drink and forget their poverty, and remember their misery no more."
Event #7: 300 B.C. Theophrastus (371-287 B.C.), Greek naturalist and philosopher, records what has remained as the earliest undisputed reference to the use of poppy juice.
Event #8: 250 B.C. Psalms, 104:14-15: "Thou dost cause grass to grow for the cattle and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food from the earth, and wine to gladden the heart of man.
So, the Egyptian preaches against going into a tavern....
And the old testament recommends wine for mood stabilization, and "strong drink" (likely poppy juice or other opiate form mixed into wine) for he dying or very ill.
Of course, elsewhere it warns people to not "tarry long with wine."
and from:
www.unification.net/ws/theme065.htm
comes this from old testament:
Who has woe? Who has sorrow?
Who has strife? Who has complaining?
Who has wounds without cause?
Who has redness of eyes?
Those who tarry long after wine,
those who go to try mixed wine.
Do not look at wine when it is red,
when it sparkles in the cup
and goes down smoothly.
At the last it bites like a serpent,
and stings like an adder.
Your eyes will see strange things,
and your mind utter perverse things.
You will be one who lies down in the midst of the [rolling] sea,
like one who totters to and fro like the top of a mast.
"They struck me," you will say, "but I was not hurt;
they beat me, but I did not feel it.
When shall I awake?
I will seek another drink."
Sounds familiar. Who has redness of eyes? Bloodshot eyes? Me? How'd they know?
www.sacred-texts.com/bib/ebd/ebd382.htm
comes this:
Mesek , "a mixture," mixed or spiced wine, not diluted with water, but mixed with drugs and spices to increase its strength, or, as some think, mingled with the lees by being shaken (Psa 75:8; Pro 23:30). In Act 2:13 the word gleukos , rendered "new wine," denotes properly "sweet wine." It must have been intoxicating. In addition to wine the Hebrews also made use of what they called debash , which was obtained by boiling down must to one-half or one-third of its original bulk. In Gen 43:11 this word is rendered "honey." It was a kind of syrup, and is called by the Arabs at the present day dibs . This word occurs in the phrase "a land flowing with milk and honey" (debash), Exo 3:8, Exo 3:17; Exo 13:5; Exo 33:3; Lev 20:24; Num 13:27. (See HONEY.) Our Lord miraculously supplied wine at the marriage feast in Cana of Galilee (Joh 2:1).
So, King James uses honey to translate an Hebrew word that refers to a sort of grape/mash/fermented/syrupy concoction--slightly alcoholic. God led the Israelites into a land filled with MILK and a mildly fermented
brew. Well, if they had had a little itty-bit of chocolate to mix with that, they could have enjoyed a drink a little like my fave--Bailey's Irish Creme. Well, they did have carob.
What if the familiar and wonderful taste of Bailey's was, in a crude form, known to early mankind? I love that idea. OK, its stupid, but I love the idea anyway.