Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [Luke: Chapter 5].
5:36 {Also a parable} (\kai parabol•n\). There are three parables
here in the answer of Jesus (the bridegroom, the patch on the
garment, the wineskin). They are not called parables save here,
but they are parables and Luke's language means that. {Rendeth}
(\schisas\). This in Luke alone. Common verb. Used of splitting
rocks (Mt 27:51). Our word schism comes from it. {Putteth it}
(\epiballei\). So Mt 9:16 when Mr 2:21 has \epiraptei\ (sews
on). The word for "piece" or "patch" (\epibl•ma\) in all the
three Gospels is from the verb \epiball•\, to clap on, and is in
Plutarch, Arrian, LXX, though the verb is as old as Homer. See on
Matthew and Mark for distinction between \kainos\ (fresh), \neos\
(new), and \palaios\ (old). {He will rend the new} (\kai to
kainon schisei\). Future active indicative. So the best MSS.
{Will not agree} (\ou sumph•n•sei\). Future active indicative. So
the best manuscripts again. {With the old} (\t•i palai•i\).
Associative instrumental case. Instead of this phrase in Luke,
Mr 2:21; Mt 9:16 have "a worse rent" (\cheiron schisma\).
5:38 {Must be put} (\bl•teon\). This verbal adjective in \-teos\
rather than \-tos\ appears here alone in the N.T. though it is
common enough in Attic Greek. It is a survival of the literary
style. This is the impersonal use and is transitive in sense here
and governs the accusative "new wine" (\oinon neon\), though the
agent is not expressed (Robertson, _Grammar_, p. 1097).
5:39 {The old is good} (\Ho palaios chr•stos estin\). So the best
MSS. rather that \chr•stoteros\, comparative (better). Westcott
and Hort wrongly bracket the whole verse, though occurring in
Aleph, B C L and most of the old documents. It is absent in D and
some of the old Latin MSS. It is the philosophy of the
obscurantist, that is here pictured by Christ. "The prejudiced
person will not even try the new, or admit that it has any
merits. He knows that the old is pleasant, and suits him; and
that is enough; he is not going to change" (Plummer). This is
Christ's picture of the reactionary Pharisees.
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Word Pictures in the New Testament
(Luke: Chapter 5)