Deu. 32:14. It is a further evidence that God intended wine, which is the juice of the grape squeezed or pressed out, to be a type of the blood of Christ shed under His extreme sufferings as a sacrifice, that the word used in Genesis 40:11 for pressing grapes in order to get thence wine, is the same that is used for killing or sacrificing. The chief butler, relating his dream, says he sweated or pressed the grapes into Pharaoh's cup. Thus the word signifies to sacrifice, or to cut the throat, as they did in sacrificing, and is everywhere so used, as appears by the Hebr. Con., and this text is mentioned as the only exception where it is used to squeeze or press grapes, which is a good argument that the pressing of grapes was a type of the sufferings of Christ, [which were] the antitype of the sufferings and deaths of their sacrifices of old.

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