Acts 2:13

ALL DRUNKEN

13. The E. V. says, “of new wine.” A mistake. Oinos, “new wine,” the simple grape juice, an innocent, reviving, nutritious drink, does not here occur: but glencos, “fermented wine,” which was a slow intoxicant. Satan had not yet invented alcoholic wine, the intoxicant of the present day. That oinos, “new”, wine, was what Paul recommended to Timothy for his health, as a valuable sanitary drink. The alcoholic wine of the present day would have made them drunk by nine o'clock, which was too early for their fermented wine to take effect, whereas the oinos, the simple expressed juice of the grape, was not an intoxicant.