Legal Ceremonies Superseded
T. Adams. Mark 2:21-22 No man also sews a piece of new cloth on an old garment: else the new piece that filled it up takes away from the old… Paul calls legal ceremonies "beggarly rudiments;" such are the popish — like a beggar's cloak, full of patches. When the debt is paid, it is unjust to keep back the bond: Christ being come, and having discharged all, it is injurious to retain the bond of ceremonies. In the spring we make much of buds and flowers to delight the eye and cheer the sense of smelling; but in autumn, when we receive the fruits to content our taste and appetite, and to nourish us, the other are nothing worth The affianced virgin esteems every token her lover sends her and solaceth her affections with those earnests of his love in his absence: but when she is married, and enjoys himself, there is no regard of the tokens. It was something to have a ceremony or a sacrifice, representing a Saviour; but this "made nothing perfect" and all the life which those things had was from that Saviour whom now we, have. (T. Adams.) Parallel Verses KJV: No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment: else the new piece that filled it up taketh away from the old, and the rent is made worse. WEB: No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, or else the patch shrinks and the new tears away from the old, and a worse hole is made.