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Selected Verse: Luke 5:37 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Lu 5:37 |
King James |
And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
bottles
That is, wineskins. |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
Bottles (ἀσκοὺς)
Rev., wine-skins. See on Mat 9:17. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| The new wine will burst the bottles - These old bottles would not be able to stand the fermentation of the new wine, as the old sewing would be apt to give way. It is scarcely necessary to remark, that the eastern bottles are made of skins; generally those of goats. |
17 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.