. Brethren's Almanac (1876). pirit on he day of Pentecost, Samaria with its villages was ^^le first place without the limits of Judea that re- lol^eived the gospel, (Acts, 8: 5—25), and it early 1513 ecame the seat of a Christian Bishop. lejy 17ilS Ancient Wine Press. In Syria, the vintage begins about the middlefj\{ f September, and continues for about two months,t is earlier in Palestine, where the grapes areometimes ripe even in June or July; this arisesl 1 )robably from a triple pruning, in which case therealso a third vintage. The first is in August, sec-nd in September, and the third in
. Brethren's Almanac (1876). pirit on he day of Pentecost, Samaria with its villages was ^^le first place without the limits of Judea that re- lol^eived the gospel, (Acts, 8: 5—25), and it early 1513 ecame the seat of a Christian Bishop. lejy 17ilS Ancient Wine Press. In Syria, the vintage begins about the middlefj\{ f September, and continues for about two months,t is earlier in Palestine, where the grapes areometimes ripe even in June or July; this arisesl 1 )robably from a triple pruning, in which case therealso a third vintage. The first is in August, sec-nd in September, and the third in , indeed, was the season when the grapescloudyferere plucked off, and carried to the wine-press,vhich was built in the vineyard, whose site wascarefully closed in fields of a loose crumbling soil,[lunclenn a rich plain, or a sloping hill, rising with a gen-priii, le ascent, or, where the acclivity was very steep,n terraces turned as much as possible from the set-in g sun. The wine-presses were either built of. stone, or hewn out of a large rock. The grapeswere thrown into the upper part, to be trodden bymen, and the juice flowed out into receptacles be-neath. The treading of the wine press was labori-ous, but it was performed with singing, and some-times accompanied with musical instruments. Oil of olives was expressed the same way, be-fore the invention of mills. The existence of thispractice in Palestine, is evident, from the languageof Moses : Let Asher dip his foot in oil; andfrom the threatening, Thou shalt sow, but thoushalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, butthou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine,but thou shalt not drink wine. Micah 6: 15. To the custom of treading grapes and olives,reference is frequently made by the inspired writ-ers. Thus the glorious eonquerer, who appearedin a vision to Isaiah, said: *I have trodden thewine-press alone ; and of the people there was nonewith me ; for 1 will tread them in my anger, andtraa»ple them
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