crhoades
Puritan Board Graduate
Isaiah 1:
The Unfaithful City
21How the faithful city
has become a whore,[d]
she who was full of justice!
Righteousness lodged in her,
but now murderers.
22Your silver has become dross,
your best wine mixed with water.
23Your princes are rebels
and companions of thieves.
Everyone loves a bribe
and runs after gifts.
They do not bring justice to the fatherless,
and the widow's cause does not come to them.
Does this verse alone negate the oft alleged dilution of wine with water that was common in the OT? Even if we grant the practice is that a sign of a city's "whoredom"? If God gave us pure wine, why would we want to dilute it other than saying that He didn't know what He was doing?
Does this text support said conclusion?
The Unfaithful City
21How the faithful city
has become a whore,[d]
she who was full of justice!
Righteousness lodged in her,
but now murderers.
22Your silver has become dross,
your best wine mixed with water.
23Your princes are rebels
and companions of thieves.
Everyone loves a bribe
and runs after gifts.
They do not bring justice to the fatherless,
and the widow's cause does not come to them.
Does this verse alone negate the oft alleged dilution of wine with water that was common in the OT? Even if we grant the practice is that a sign of a city's "whoredom"? If God gave us pure wine, why would we want to dilute it other than saying that He didn't know what He was doing?
Does this text support said conclusion?