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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 1, 1916

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 93, No. 27.

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“Without Mixture”

By F. D. Starr

F. D. STARR
It is a fearful condition of things that is predicted in the warning of Rev. 14: 9-11, where worshipers of the beast are threatened with “the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation.” Was ever anything of this kind contemplated by the prophets of ancient time? By consulting the Septuagint, the Greek version of the Old Testament, we find the counterpart of this utterance. In Jer. 25: 15 this language is used: “Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.” The Greek word here translated “fury” is ακρατου (akratou), the identical terms translated “without mixture” in Rev. 14: 10. The correct translation of the Greek of Jer. 25: 15 is: “Take the cup of this unmixed wine from mine hand, and thou shalt cause all the nations to drink, to whom I send thee.”
As the writer of the book of Revelation was continually using symbols and language employed by the former prophets, it is quite evident that there is a close connection between the thought of Jeremiah and that of John in this case. The cup of fury, the unmixed wine, is to be drunk by all the nations of earth; and the consequence is that the slain cover the land from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth, and the earth will be depopulated by the seven last plagues, in which is filled up the wrath of God, the wine without mixture, administered after the close of probation.
Surely the prophets of old have likewise foretold of these days, and the nations are certainly rushing into the final vortex. How blessed to be found among those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus in that fearful crisis!
Spokane, Wash.