Sentences with phrase «in old wineskins»

The similes of the new patch on the old garment and of new wine in the old wineskins (Mark 2:21 - 22) are susceptible of several interpretations (for example, in the joy of the Messianic age the ancient mourning customs no longer have meaning); but the original significance of the words can no longer be ascertained.

Early Christian art often copied purely pagan themes and simply «Christianized» them — an attempt to put new wine in old wineskins.

These are the parables of the wedding guests who need not fast while the bridegroom is with them; of putting a new patch on an old garment; and of putting new wine in old wineskins (Matt.

The phrase «new wine in old wineskin» might be a bit apt in this scenario.

Not exact matches

There is a hint of this in a parable: «No one puts new wine into old wineskins; if he does, the wine will burst the skins and then wine and skins are both lost.

And in Mark 2:22 the Gospel is compared to new wine that breaks old wineskins.

What is interesting in retrospect is that inch by inch accommodations were made, piecemeal, to the old wineskins, and new wine continued to be added.