new wine … into new bottles Rather, new (νέος) wine into fresh (καινοὺς) wine-skins. The new spirit requires fresh forms for its expression and preservation; the vigour of youth cannot be bound in the swaddling-bands of infancy. It is impossible to be both-under the Law " and -under grace." The Hebraising Christians against whom St Paul had to wage his lifelong battle those Judaisers who tried to ruin his work in Galatia, Corinth, and Rome had precisely failed to grasp the meaning of these truths.

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