Verse 20
20. Wave offering See Leviticus 7:30, note.
After that the Nazarite may drink wine The Hebrew yayin is the most general term for wine which intoxicates. It is an open question whether the strong condemnation pronounced by the Bible against the effects of wine is not rather directed against intoxication and excess than against the substance itself. He who quotes the Nazarite as an example of total abstinence should also quote this permission of wine drinking after the period of his vow. The Pauline reason for abstinence, the removal of all stumbling-blocks from the path of the weak brother, is the only unanswerable, scriptural argument. Romans 14:21, note. This removes the question from the sphere of immutable morality, into which extremists have wrongfully thrust it, to the sphere of prudential morality, where it belongs.
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