Neither do they put new wine into old bottles. Otherwise the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish. But new wine they put into new bottles: and both are preserved.
Francis Patrick Kenrick
Skins or bags were used, as is still the case in Asia. When new wine fermented in old skins, these not being easily distended, were apt to burst. This, however, St. Chrysostom remarks, does not arise from the wine, or from the skins in which it is received, but from the haste of those who put it in. He adds, that " Christ foretells that His disciples will hereafter be renewed in spirit ; and that until this take place, no- thing austere, or burthensome, should be enjoined on them." In loc.
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.