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1 Timothy 5:23
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Timothy was evidently an abstainer, and the Apostle Paul had to say to him, ‘Do not take exclusively water as you are doing, because of your sickness and your gastroenteritis’ – or whatever it was that kept coming back – ‘take a little wine’, in other words, put some wine into your water. That was what the Apostle advised Timothy. Timothy was an abstainer, and it's fair to say that Timothy didn't do anything that the Apostle Paul didn't do. The apostle commends Timothy for imitating him in all things, and it is likely that we see therefore that the Apostle Paul himself was an abstainer. Paul had to almost give Timothy a special dispensation to take a little of the sanitary cordial of the day with his water in order to protect him against some of his stomach ailments.
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In the early 1970s in various parts of the world quite a number of medical research laboratories started to do work to find out what it was that was effective in ancient times against stomach germs. There were some trials carried out and all sorts of people were tested on all sorts of beverages, and what came top of the list for effectiveness against gastric upsets was orange juice. What came not far behind orange juice was unfermented wine, and then a number of other preparations came along and then fermented wine that was quite low on the list. The more fermentation the more ineffective was the fruit of the vine the grape juice to help with stomach disorders.
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