Partially fermented wine (the ‘must’) was stored in wineskins, but as the fermentation process continued, it produced more gases and so stretched the wineskin which was made from the hide of a goat. In most cultures, cloth shrinks when it is washed, and it you put an unprewashed piece of material onto cloth that has already shrunk, when it is washed it will itself shrink and tear a hole. The reference of the two parables is fairly straightforward. And none of you, after drinking old wine, wants the new, for you say, ‘The old is better.’ (Luke 5.36–39) No, new wine must be poured into new wineskins. If they do, the new wine will burst the skins the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. And people do not pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, they will have torn the new garment, and the patch from the new will not match the old. No one tears a piece out of a new garment to patch an old one. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins. If they do, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. ![]() If they do, the new piece will pull away from the old, making the tear worse. No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved. If they do, the skins will burst the wine will run out, and the wineskins will be ruined. No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch will pull away from the garment, making the tear worse. Neither do people pour new wine into old wineskins. 1915.In all three Synoptic gospels, Jesus concludes a conversation about the contrast between his teaching and practice and that of the Pharisees (and John the Baptist) by means of a parable about wine and wineskins. "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". The explanation of the New Testament passages is that the new wine, still liable to continue fermenting to a small extent at least, was put into new, still expansible skins, a condition that had ceased in the older ones. The reference to "a wineskin in the smoke" in Psalms 119:83 is generally explained on the supposition of its being hung there for mellowing purposes, but this can scarcely be accepted, for wine is never left for any length of time in the skin on account of its imparting a disagreeable flavor to the contents. It is then tanned, the hair cut close, turned inside out, and has all the openings save one closed with cords, when it is ready for use. The skin is removed from the animal by drawing it over the body from the neck downward, half the skin on each of the limbs being also retained. ![]() The Israelite, like the modern Arabic and Syrian, used mainly the skin of the goat and the sheep, but the skins of the ox and the camel have also been put to this purpose. These words are all used to designate skins for the containing of liquids, nebhel, however, being the most common in the case of wine. (chemeth ( Genesis 21:14 margin), n'odh ( Judges 4:19 "'bottle") nebhel, nebhel ( 1 Samuel 10:3 margin), ('obh) ( Job 32:19) askos ( Matthew 9:17 Mark 2:22 Luke 5:37 compare askoputine, Judith 10:5, the Revised Version (British and American) "leathern bottle")):
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