Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities. (1 Timothy 5:23)
Imagine an impostor sitting down to forge an epistle in the name of St. Paul. Is it credible that it should come into his head to give such a direction as this; so remote from every thing of doctrine or discipline, everything of public concern to the religion or the church, or to any sect, order, or party in it, and from every purpose with which such an epistle could be written? It seems to me that nothing but reality, that is, the real valetudinary1 situation of a real person, could have suggested a thought of so domestic a nature.
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Author: William Paley
Keywords: Wine, Health, Timothy's stomach, Medicine
Bible reference(s): 1 Timothy 5:23
Source: Horae Apostolicae (London: The Religious Tract Society, 1850).
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