**Wine Symbolism ? Holy Spirit ?**

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Wine Symbolism ? Holy Spirit ?

I have read that when Jesus performed His first miracle of changing water into wine, that the wine symbolized the Holy Spirit.

I have found the verses below to support that.

Are there any other scriptural passages or church teachings that support this ?

Acts 2:13-17
“ … others mocking said, “They are filled with new wine.”
14 But Peter … addressed them, “… For these men are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only the third hour of the day; 16 but this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel: 17 ‘And in the last days it shall be, God declares,
that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh…”

Ephesians 5:15-18
“Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise men but as wise … And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit …”

Luke 5:37-39
“And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled, and the wineskins will be ruined. But new wine must be put into new wineskins, and both are preserved. And no one, having drunk old wine, immediately desires new; for he says, ‘The old is better.’"

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John
 
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I have read that when Jesus performed His first miracle of changing water into wine, that the wine symbolized the Holy Spirit.
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What did you read? Can you post the relevant part of it here?
 
It provides a new direction of reflection on the sacramental wine.
 
It is an interesting proposition and good usage in talking about the Holy Spirit. I particularly like the Eph 5 - that when we’re filled with the Spirit we can get a little tipsy and our feet would feel like dancing. Perhaps the same word, wine, is being used, however, it just stop short of being the Holy Spirit symbolism. I am open to that nevertheless and hope to hear more support to the idea.
 

Drunk Catholic History: Spirits and the Holy Spirit - OnePeterFive

Later on, St. Paul uses liquid imagery for the Holy Spirit when he writes that “in one Spirit we have all been made to drink” (I Cor. 12:13). Separately, during the first Pentecost bystanders mistook the effects of the Holy Spirit on the disciples as intoxication from too much new wine (Acts 2:13).
 
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