God’s Controversy with Israel (4) Hosea 4:11
“Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.” There is a definite connection between drunkenness and whoredom, both corporeally and spiritually. See Prov. 23:20, 27-35. Wine may lawfully be used as a medicine. I Tim. 5:23. But taken to excess (Eph. 5:18), wine acts upon the body as a poison. Deut. 32:33; Prov. 23:31; Hos. 7:5. The abuse of wine takes away the heart, i.e. it renders the abuser devoid of understanding. Isa. 28:1, 7 are plain on this point. The Bible has glaring...