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Comments: Wineskin in Nazareth

 

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Comments: Donnas Vine and Wine Museum, Aosta Valley, Italy.

 

Credit: Luis Egidio Meléndez (1716–1780)

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Comments: Still Life with Melon Figs Apples Wineskin and Picnic Hamper in a Landscape

 

From Fausset: Bottle, Of two kinds:

(1) Of skin or leather, used for carrying water, wine, and milk. A goatskin whole, the apertures at the feet and tail being bound up, and when filled tied at the neck. They are tanned with acacia bark and left hairy at the outside. The Gibeonites' bottles were rent, as they pretended, with their distant journey (Joshua 9:4; Joshua 9:13). New wines by fermenting would rend "old bottles" of skin (Matthew 9:17). It is therefore put in new goatskin bottles, and without a vent to work off the fermentation strains even them.

So Elihu, the young friend of Job, after the older ones had failed to comfort him, compares himself, filled with the spirit which inspired him so as to be full of words seeking for utterance, to new bottles of wine: "my belly is as wine which hath no vent, it is ready to burst like new bottles" (Job 32:19). Hung in the smoke to dry, the skin bottles become parched and shriveled; whence the psalmist (Psalms 119:83) says, "I am become like a bottle in the smoke." Skins for wine are still used in Spain, called borrachas.

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Verses:

  • Joshua 9:4
  • Joshua 9:13
  • Job 32:19
  • Psalms 119:83
  • Jeremiah 13:12
  • Habakkuk 2:15
  • Matthew 9:17
  • Mark 2:22
  • Luke 5:37
  • Luke 5:38
Bibliography Information
Bible Diciontary of Animals, Plants, and other Objects. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​apo/​w/wineskin.html. 2024.
 
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