Matthew 9:17 Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runs out, and the bottles perish… By these illustrations our Lord conveyed a lesson on the charm of naturalness and the law of congruity in religion, 1. As old cloth and new cloth are one in being cloth, old wine and new are one in being wine; so the religion before Christ and that which He introduced are essentially one in kind, if not in quality. 2. The effect of the forced junction of the old and new would be injurious to both. (D. Fraser, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved. |
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