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Neither do people put new wine into old wineskins, or else the skins would burst, and the wine be spilled, and the skins ruined. No, they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.”
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Verse 17. New wine into old bottles. [3] These vessels were made of skins, or were leather bottles, in which wine used to be carried and kept. Witham.—They were made of goat-skins prepared and sewed together, as is common in Spain and other southern countries to this day. A.—They were to wait till they were renewed by the Holy Ghost, before they could enter with advantage on the hard ways of penance. V.
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