Offering sour wine combined with gall to our suffering, crucified Lord Jesus may have been a medicinal and merciful gesture to dull the intense pain but St. In the Pentateuch Book of Deuteronomy, Moses the prophet declared of the wicked, " Their grapes are grapes of gall" (Deuteronomy 32:32). The prophet Hosea (10:4) associates gall with hemlock. The Old Testament Book of Job 20:14 refers to gall as the " gall of an asp". Gall, a substance usually associated with bitterness and misfortune, was thought to have been derived from a berry producing plant, often attributed to the poppy plant. In the Old Testament Holy Book of Psalm, vinegar is associated with poison, " They gave me gall for my food, and they gave me vinegar for my drink" (Psalm 68:22 LXX). Vinegar was a drink consisting of wine or a strong drink generally turned sour. The sour wine, offered to the Lord Jesus Christ during His crucifixion, has been frequently referred to as vinegar. Sour wine, a staple in the Roman soldier's diet commonly used by poor people, was certainly considered unpalatable for the Jewish and the Roman upper class to partake of. Why did the Roman soldiers give our Lord wine mingled with gall to drink? Did the Romans consider the most repulsive crimes worthy of mercy or was the act of crucifixion more bearable to observe and hence bearably executable by intoxicating the crucified? This happened right after our Lord's loud agonizing cry, " Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? That is My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?" (Matthew 27:46) after which, one of those standing beside the cross ran and " took a sponge, filled it with sour wine and put it on a reed, and offered it to Him to drink" (Matthew 27:48). When the Lord Jesus Christ was crucified upon the Holy Cross, He was offered a sour, less than desirable, thin wine laced with gall. Our Lord Jesus Christ did not belong within any of those categories punishable by crucifixion and yet he was falsely convicted and sentenced to death by it. It was designed for non Roman violent criminals, murderers, rebellious slaves and those convicted of high treason. Punishment by crucifixion was not applicable to, nor executable on Roman citizens. But when He had tasted it, He would not drink" (Matthew 27:34). Paraskeva Church, Vladimir Region, Russia - Hosted on, Product #S365." They gave Him sour wine mingled with gall to drink.
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In the Russian tradition the Good Thief's name is Rakh.
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The apocryphal Arabic Infancy Gospel calls the two thieves "Titus and Dumachus", and adds a tale about how Titus (the good one) prevented the other thieves in his company from robbing Mary and Joseph during their Flight into Egypt.
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The name of "Dismas" was adapted from a Greek word meaning "sunset" or "death." The other thief's name is given as Gestas. The Gospel of Luke describes one of these thiefs as "penitent", who was later assigned the name Dismas in the Gospel of Nicodemus.
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According to the Scriptures, Christ crucified along with two others yet none of the gospel's actually name them.