Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 22:25:30 EDT From: puzzled tink Subject: Re: [WRITERS] FILLER: What the Bible says (was: TECH: art, social utility) [I'm still trying to catch up--I know it's futile, but I have to have some kind of hobby, right? In the interregnum, allow me to elucidate a point of biblical lore...although I'm not sure what we're doing there...] On Tue, 28 Apr 1998 22:21:55 CDT, Dan Goodman wrote: :) :) Rex Page :) > First, the Bible says not to put a new patch on an old garment, not :) > don't mix types of fabric. It also said not to put new wine into old :) > bottles. There is a lesson there. :) :) Read Leviticus. The prohibition against mixing certain types of :) fabric is there. Along with a whole lot of other prohibitions, many :) of which would seem odd to most Christians and Jews today. Um, I believe the relevant reference is Deuteronomy 22:11? DEU 22:11 Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together. from http://www.spd.louisville.edu/~m0zaud01/holy/deu.html The New English Bible puts it: You shall not wear clothes woven with two kinds of yarn, wool and flax together. There is, of course, the later reference (Either Matthew 9:16-17, 16 "No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch will pull away from the garment, making the tear worse. 17 Neither do men pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved." Mark 2:21-22, 21 "No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the new piece will pull away from the old, making the tear worse. 22 And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. No, he pours new wine into new wineskins." or Luke 5:36-38?) 36 He told them this parable: "No one tears a patch from a new garment and sews it on an old one. If he does, he will have torn the new garment, and the patch from the new will not match the old. 37 And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins, the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. 38 No, new wine must be poured into new wineskins. from http://bible.gospelcom.net/cgi-bin/bible? searches Does that help clarify the context? hermeneutics and exegesis were never a great strength of mine, but I do enjoy dabbling now and then... tink