And no man putteth new wine into old bottles
To which the Scribes and Pharisees are here compared, into whose
hearts the new wine of Gospel grace was not put; or to whom was
not made known the love of God Comparable to new wine; nor the
blessings of the new covenant of grace, now exhibited; nor the
truths of the Gospel now more clearly and newly revealed.
Else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be
spilled;
they not being able to receive and bear these things, no, not the
relation of them: these were hard sayings to them, of which they
said, who can hear them? they could not hear them with patience,
much less receive them in the love of them; but were at once
filled with wrath and indignation, and rejected them.
And the bottles shall perish;
their condemnation shall be the greater.
