“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.”
And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined — new wine (still fermenting and expanding) bursts old wineskins (dried out and inflexible). Both the wine and the wineskins are lost. The kingdom's new reality cannot be contained within the old covenant's forms — both the new reality and the container are damaged by the forced combination.
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