nazerites

Updated: June 2, 2025

Some of these may seem to be strange restrictions; but they speak the piety of him who laid them, and his regard to the eternal, if not to the temporal interests, of his posterity. The prohibition seems to have been the same with the law of the Nazerites. Wine is doubtless here used in a large sense, for every kind of strong drink. "Wine was given to make glad the heart of man."

Andrew Lee - Sermons on Various Important Subjects : Written Partly on Sundry of the More Difficult Passages in the Sacred Volume