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Ancient Wine Press In the ancient world the wine
press was a large basin where men would tread grapes. They would hold on to
ropes above them and stamp their feet. The juice would run into containers
on the sides of the large basin. In the above illustration a woman is seen
bringing more grapes in a basket. "Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it." Matthew 21:33-34 "And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God." Revelation 19:15 |
