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The Biblical Meaning of Temperance

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 2, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 5.

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The Biblical Meaning of Temperance

A NEW meaning is unfolded from the word "temperate," so harped upon by our "moderate" friends, when it is understood that in the Scriptural use of the term, the Greek word employed is synonymous with the Hebrew term used in Gen. 43:31, where, in speaking of Joseph's tears for his brothers, he is said to have gone out of his chamber, where he had been weeping, and "restrained himself." Temperance, in Bible language, evidently means refraining, or total abstinence.— Signal.