A

Aaron-he, his sons, and successors for-
bidden to use wine and strong drink
during their ministrations, 36. Re-
ferences to this law by Josephus, 209,
364; and by Philo, 210, 364.
Abbreviations - marks of, employed,
xlviii.

A'Beckett, Sir W.-lines by, under the
motto, In Vino Falsitas, 146.
Aben Ezra-on the use of vinegar, 77.

His allusion to Belshazzar's feast, 214.
Abib-the Hebrew civil month (identical
with the ecclesiastical month Nisan),
and corresponding to part of our
March and April, 31.
Abigail-her gifts to David, 82.
Abimelech-cursed by the Shechemites
when feasting, 71.
Abraham-his defeat of the confederate
kings, 11. Met by Melchizedek, II.
Entertains angels, 12. Sends forth
Hagar and Ishmael, 14. Dispute of
his servants with Abimelech's about a
well, 14. Progenitor of the Rechab-
ites, 192.

Absalom-his plot against Amnon, 86.
Absinthe-its nature and where manu-
factured, 390 (also foot-note).
Abstainers, eminent, in ancient times-
Nazarites, 44, 203.
Samson, 72.

Samuel, 79. Rechabites, 192. Daniel,
213. Therapeutæ, 257. John the
Baptist, 267, 292. Timothy, 272-274.
Abstemia-who were so styled, and why,
369.

Abstinence from intoxicating drink-

falsely charged with asceticism, xi. A
law of Paradise, 7. Practised by the
Israelites in the desert, 60. Divinely
sanctioned as a safeguard against sin,
38, 44, 320, 347. Conducive to health
and strength, 72, 175, 203, 213.
A
guarantee of sobriety, 80. Conducive

to mental clearness and vigour, 143.
A doctrine of antiquity, 192, 252. A
powerful instrument of Christian use-
fulness, 263. Of great importance to
the sober, 264. A means of moral
development, 271, 296. A noble form
of Christian self-denial, 272. A mani-
festation of true temperance, 316-7,
388.

Abulwalid- —on qubaath, 176.
Abuse of God's bounties-wherein it
consists, 16. How associated with the
manufacture of intoxicating drinks, 370.
Abyssinian Church-its use of raisin
wine at the Lord's Supper, 277, 282.
Achilles Tatius-Greek legend related
by, 181.

Achluō and Achlus-their supposed
connection with khaklili, 23.
Adam and Eve-in paradise, 5, 6, 7.
Adam-Book of Adam' quoted, 160.
Adunamon (Adynamon)-an unintoxi-
cating wine, 374.
Eschylus-his use of nephalion and
neephon, 363. His reference to wine
in the grape, 433.
Africanus-his notice of oil-wine, 297.
Agapa (love-feasts)—their abuse in the
early Church, 339, 342.
Ahasuerus- his sumptuous entertain-
ment, 108. His decree against a fixed
rule of drinking, 109. His command,
when merry with wine,' concerning
Vashti, 110. His feast in Esther's
honour, drinking with Haman, and
presence at Esther's banquet, III.
Ahsis (fresh-juice)—its derivation and
use in Scripture, xxiii, xxxvi. See
Appendices B 416, and C 431.
Ainsworth, H.-on the Nazarites' vow,
44.
Alcahal-a powder for the eyebrows,

supposed to have suggested the name
of alcohol, 23.

Alcibiades speech ascribed to, by
Plato, 363.
Alcohol-its poisonous action, xii. Does
not exist in grapes, xxxviii. Theory
that it arrests the transformation of
tissue, xli (foot-note). Is formed by
the decomposition of sugar, 3. Its
chemical composition; not a food, or
an equivalent to food, but a poison
and prolific cause of disease and death,
4. Supposed derivation of the name,
23. The physical cause of intem-
perance, 261. Excites thirst, 275.
The quantity annually consumed at
the Lord's Supper in England, 286.
Alcoholic fermentation-signs of, 136-7.
Aleppo (Helbon)—209.

Alexander the Great-his drunken mad-
ness, 270.

Alfieri-on vino, etc., xxxvii.
Alford, Dean-on avoidance of the occa-
sions of evil desire, 264. On chreestos,
294. On Luke v. 39, p. 294. His
charges against the Temperance move-
ment in his Notes on the miracle at
Cana, 306. On methuō, 341, and the
original sense and apostolic use of
neepho, 364, 365. On the appearance
(eidos) of evil, 366. On the ravages
of ardent spirits, 390.
Alexis-his Fanatic' quoted, xxxii.
Allen's 'Modern Judaism'-
-on the wine

of the passover, 283.
Alsop, R.-on the use of grape-juice
syrup in France, xxxv.
Alliance News, The-quotation from, on
armour-plate rolling without intoxi-
cating drinks, 175.
Amalekites-when feasting, overtaken
by David, 84.

Amen-em-an-his letter to Penta-our on
the use of wine, 20.
Amnon-his murder, when 'merry with
wine,' 86.

Amphictyon-the king of Attica who
taught his people to mix water with
wine, 54.

Amphora-its size and shape, 81.
Amphis quoted, xxxiv.

Anacreon on oinos (wine) in the grape,
22, 70, Appendix C 433. His use of
methuō, 341. His exhortations to
vinous indulgence, 344.

Anna the prophetess-styled by St
Cyril a most religious ascetic,' 317.
Anstie, Dr-on alcohol and other drugs,
xl; see also foot-note.
Antediluvians-whether acquainted with
intoxicating drinks, 8.
Their sen-
suality, 274, 299.

vi. 34), 181; (1 Esdr. iii. and iv.),
187.
Apollonius-on neepho, 362.
Apostolic Canons (The)-approved of
asceticism for moral ends, 253.
Appendices-A 397, B 412, C 431.
Appetite for intoxicating drinks—unna-
tural, 381.

Apple-why supposed to be the forbidden
fruit, 7. Comprehensive meanings of
ancient words translated 'apple,' 151.
Apsinthos (wormwood), 390.
Aquila-the friend of St Paul, 315.
Aquila's Greek Version of the Hebrew
Bible-quoted, 3, 23, 52, 53, 57, 60,
62, 82, 83, 84, 117, 119, 120, 121, 124,
130, 131, 133, 134, 135, 136, 143, 151,
156, 158, 159, 167, 169, 170, 171, 185,
340 (foot-note).

Aquinas, Thomas-on grape-juice having
the specific nature (species) of wine,

and being therefore properly used in
the Lord's Supper, xxxvi, 285.
Arabic Version of the Hebrew Bible-
quoted, 10, 22, 47, 52, 53, 55, 57, 65,
70, 77, 82, 94, 104, 115, 120, 142,
155, 160, 165, 169, 170, 171, 203, 206,
217, 218, 222, 231, 233, 246.
Arcadia-some wines of, as thick as
honey, 295.

Aristophanes-compared soldiers with
foxes, 152. His use of neephontes, 363.
Aristotle quoted, on the wines of Ar-
cadia, 295.

Arrows-drunk (drenched) with blood,
64.

Artaxerxes-his notice of Nehemiah's
sadness, 193, 194.
Asceticism- ancient practice and ap-
proval of, 253. True and false forms
distinguished, 317. Dr Eadie's and Dr
Howson's remarks upon, 317 (foot-
note).

Ashantee its king's drink-offering of
blood, 118.

Ashishah-explained, xxvii. See Ap-
pendix B 417.

Asōtia-dissoluteness, 355, 385.
Athenæus-his 'Deipnosophista' quot-
ed, extracts from Alexis, xxxiii; from
Cratinus, Amphis, and Damoxenus,
xxxiv. On the sweet wine of the Mity-
lenians, xxxvi. On Egyptian wines,
17. On the voyage of Nymphodorus,
198. On excessive drinking usages,
231. On sacrifices without wine of-
fered to the sun, 363 (foot-note). On
a saying of Philip of Macedon, 364
(foot-note). On Chian, Bibline, and
Lesbian wines, 374-

Athletes ancient and modern training
of, on the abstinence principle, 333;
also foot-note.

Atlas works, Sheffield-total abstinence
of workmen employed in, 175.
Augustine, St-his charge of inconsis-
tency against the Manichæans, 253, 282.
On Psa. iv. 7, p. 117. Describes
Noah as ebrius, not ebriosus, 275. On
the subjection of the body to the
spirit, 296. His exposition of the
miraculous conversion of water into
wine at Cana, 305.
Austria-abstemious habits of the wo-
men, 369.

Authority-not to be implicitly accepted
in the interpretation of Scripture, xiii.
Avenarius, Dr-on ahsis, xxxvi.

B

Baal Hatturim-on 'wine in the grapes'
at Pentecost, xxii. On the exclusion
of honey from offerings by fire, 34.
Babylon-association of its fall with in-
temperance, 164, 200, 215. Its 'cup'
one of drunkenness and madness, 200.
Its luxuriousness in the time of Daniel,
211. Mystical Babylon and her raging
wine, 391-393.

Bacchanalian festival, 208. Excesses at
Athens, 352.
Bacchus-legend of his interview with a
shepherd, 181. His name of Leenian
from leenos (wine-press), 273.
His

Greek name Dionysos, 350. Wineless
sacrifices sometimes offered to him,
363. Unfermented wine poured out
to him, 433.

Bacchylides-his lines on the effects of
wine, 159.

Bacon, Lord-on wines gently expressed
compared to Scripture doctrine, xxxvi.
Badatschon wormwood, 203.
Bags with holes-modern illustration of,
243.

Bagster's Treasury Bible'-quoted on
Samson's abstinence, 72-3. On the
pomegranate, 81. On Jonadab and
the Rechabites, 193.
Balaam-his sin, and its modern coun-
terpart, 389.

Banquetings (potoi, 'drinkings'), 385.
Barclay, Dr-his theory that unfermented

wine cannot be preserved, xxxiv.
Barsom-a Persian plant, 205.
Bartenora Rabbi-on drinking less of
boiled wine, xxii, 279. On the tra-
dition that the juices of fruits do not
ferment, 279.

Bate, Julius, M. A.-on tirosh as grapes,
χχίν.

Bath-a Hebrew fluid measure = 7 gals.
4 pints English, 98, 159.
Beale, Dr-on alcohol not a food, xli.
Beefsteak-its nutritious value 156 times
greater than that of wine, 370.
Beer (well), 48.
Beer-known to the Egyptians, 18, 20.
Supposed reference to, in Isaiah, 163.
Belshazzar-his profane feast and death,
214.

Bengel's Notes-on kainon (new), 278.
On Mary's address to Jesus, 302. On
I Cor. xi. 21, p. 341. On Ephes. v.
18, p. 352.

Benhadad-drinking himself drunk, '88.
Benisch, Dr-his version of Prov. xxxi.
5, 6, p. 143. On tirosh, 217. On ashi-
shah, 219. On Hos. iv. 18, p. 220.
On Hos. vii. 5, p. 221. On Hab. ii.
5, p. 239. On Hab. ii. 15, p. 240.
Benjamin of Tudela-his account of the
Rechabites in the twelfth century,
195-6.

Benjamites-concealed in the vineyards,

76.

Beth-haccerem, 104, 184.
Bethlehem-the well of, 87.
Beza's Latin Version of the New Testa-
ment-quoted, 267, 275, 278, 287, 295,

353.

Bhadoom-wine-vats in, xxvi.
Bible (The)-not accountable for the
errors and abuses it has been used to
support, ix. How its testimony on
the subject of strong drink is liable to
perversion, xv. Composed in the
language of daily life, xvii. Not an
exhausted book, xxix.
Bibline wine, 374

Bingham's Antiquities of the Christian
Church'-quoted and examined, 277,

280.

Bishops cautions addressed to, 367,
368, 377.

'Bishops' Bible' The (1568 A. D.)—-
quoted, xxvii.

Bland-his translation of lines by Ibycus,

XX.

Blayney, Dr-on gizrahtham, 204.
Bloomfield, Dr S. T.-Notes on the
training of athletes for the Grecian
games, 333. On the meaning of me-
thuō, 341; also foot-note.

Blount, B.-on must as new wine, xxxvii.
Blunt, Professor J. J.-on the sins of
Nadab and Abihu, 37.

Boaz-his treatment of Ruth, 77. His
heart merry, 78.

Bocchoris said to have reigned in Egypt
766 B.C., and to have permitted kings
to drink wine, 19.

CHRIST-see under JESUS CHRIST.
Christianity-its first principles, and their
power, if carried out, to banish evil
from the world, 369.
Christians their self-conquest and self-
control, 87, 295. Their duty as Good
Samaritans, 298. Their obligations
towards their brethren, 321-325, 332,
337. To imitate Christ, 327, 338,
346, 384. To avoid evil, 322, 330,
366. To do all possible good, 351,
356. To cultivate the strictest sobriety
and self-restraint, 317, 334, 361.
Christians of St John-their use of raisin-
wine at the Lord's Supper, 280.
Christians of St Thomas-their use of
raisin-wine at the Lord's Supper, 280.
Christian Spectator, The-version of
Hab. ii. 15, 16, p. 240.

Church (The) has it ever erred in its
interpretation of Scripture? xxx. Its
duty to recognise the agreement of
Scripture with science, xlv-vi.
Church Article XXI.-quoted, xxx.
Chusda, Rabbi-his statement of the
drugged wine given to Jewish criminals,
291.

Chrysostom, St-on the conversion of
water into wine at Cana, 305. On
living water,' 309. On methuō, 341.
On Use no longer water,' etc., 372.
Chwolson, Professor-his translation of
some ancient writings, 192.
Cicero quoted, concerning olives and
vines, 389.

Civil government-of Divine institution,
and perverted when used to sanction
the traffic in strong drink, 321, 383.
Claret grape-red colour of the juice,
180-1 (foot-note).
Clarke, Dr Adam-on matzatz, 12. On
the use of unfermented wine by the
ancients, 19. On debash (honey), 20.
On the priests being prohibited to use
wine during their ministrations, 37.
On the Nazarites, 204. On the train-
ing of candidates for the Grecian
games, 333. On the meaning of
methuō, 341. On swallowing down
strong drink and being swallowed
down by the devil, 386.
Claudius Cæsar-his intemperance, 313.
Clemens Alexandrinus-on the benefit
of abstinence, and effects of wine, xl,
352. On St Matthew as included
among the enkratites, 253. On the
sense of methuō, 341. On asōtia,
352.
Clergy-forbidden by the ante-Nicene
canons to visit inns except on a jour
ney, 367.

Club-feasts-in ancient times, 338, 353-
Codex Aleph (New Testament) referred
to-265, 267, 274, 276, 287, 289, 290,
291, 293, 294, 295, 299, 300, 301,
302, 313, 328, 367, 372, 381, 385.
Codex A * (N. T.) referred to-289, 290,
291, 294, 300, 313, 328, 338, 343,
367, 372, 381, 385, 393.

Codex B (N. T.) referred to-265, 267,
274, 276, 287, 289, 290, 291, 293,
294, 299, 300, 313, 328, 357, 381,
383, 385, 393.

Codex C (N. T.) referred to-265, 274,
276, 287, 289, 290, 291, 293, 294,

299, 300, 313, 328, 393.
Codex D (N. T.) referred to-261, 263,
265, 266, 274, 276, 287, 288, 289,
290, 291, 293, 294, 295, 298, 300,
313, 328, 338, 348, 367, 372.
Codex Z (N. T.) referred to-265, 266,
276, 287. [Codex Z includes only St
Matthew's Gospel.]

Colenso, Dr-his quibble as to 'hare,'
xvii. His unsound argument respect-
ing succah, xvii.
On the wider sense

of bechor and khag, xviii. On kha-
mashim, xliii.

Collins' 'Voyages'-quoted, xxii.
Collins, Wilkie-on the effects of wine,
xl.
Columella-on defrutum turning sour,
xxiii, 220. On wine from grape-husks,
157. His receipt for oil-wine, 297.
Comus (the god of revelry)-49, 322.
'Comus' (Milton's)-quoted, 13, 317.
Connection of the Old and New Testa-
ments, 252-258.
Connelly's Spanish Dictionary'-quo-
ted, xxii.
Conscience-a violation of it sinful, 326,
327. A tender regard for the con-
sciences of others to be cherished, 336,
337.

Conversion of water into wine-at Cana,
302. Annually effected in nature, 305.
Conybeare and Howson's 'Life and
Letters of St Paul'-quoted, on the
Essenes, 258. On 'Awake to righ-
teousness,' 345. On Ephes. v. 18, p.
353-

Cook, Eliza-lines by, on water, 127.
Coptic Church (Egyptian) the wine
used by, at the Lord's Supper, 282.
Corinth-intemperance of, 329.
Corinthian Church-reproved by St Paul

Codex A of the N. T. does not commence
till Matt. xxv. 6, and is less frequently referred
to in the body of this Commentary, because
Greek Text of Stephens. On p. 265 'A' is a
more generally in accordance with the Received
misprint for 'Z.'