Note 61 — WINE.
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“The Blood of the Grape appeareth to be Blood, in it is Life, it is from the Vine, and that the Plant of life; and that the difference between this Plant, and the Tree of Life in Paradise, were but magis and minus, is not so improbable as to be rejected by any, for they will be both granted Plants of Life, and they very much respond in their nature as well as Appellation. What the fruit was that sprang from that in Paradise, is not as yet known, or not so perfectly understood as that of the Vine, the nature of which is so lively as that Galen will affirm it to augment radical heat, which is the way to live for ever.”—See Dr. Whitaker on the Blood of the Grape, 16mo. 1654, p. 3 and 31.