BOM Mosiah 22

A very quick and trivial comment about today’s reading, Mosiah 22:

Some Latter-day Saints like to claim that the wine mentioned in the scriptures was really just unfermented grape juice.

But this chapter makes that view untenable.  The wine offered by Limhi and Gideon to their Lamanite guards made those guards drunk.  Welch’s grape juice, however, can’t be relied upon to have that effect — at least, not in my experience.

And it isn’t as if they took their normal grape juice and, in furtherance of a long-term plot, allowed it to ferment.  The plan was hatched earlier on the very day on which it was carried out, and the chapter clearly indicates that an intoxicating tribute of wine had been going to the Lamanites for quite some time already.  Which means that it was normally fermented.