![]() Jesus says, “The old will not be destroyed by the new but brought to its fullness.” ![]() We usually ignore the old garment and new cloth metaphor as if it doesn’t exist because the “old wineskin” metaphor is more attractive or popular. We think the old represents something to be trashed, not something to be preserved. Well, we certainly got that point backward, didn’t we? We are always speaking of new wine and old wineskins at the expense of the former. The new cannot be introduced at the expense of the existing, Jesus says. It is the maturing of the new that destroys the old. The second point of the metaphor concerns preserving the new while it matures. He is not looking to patch things up but to introduce something fundamentally different from the existing processes and structures while preserving the old and new while doing so. He concerns Himself with preserving the old as much as He concerns Himself with avoiding the loss or waste of the new. He points to the need to restore the old before involving it with the new. He says both the old wineskin and the old garment will be destroyed by the introduction of new wine or new cloth. What is wine? What is the wineskin? What is the vineyard? What is the result of this metaphoric reference when coupled with putting new cloth into an old garment?
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