Verse 37 Bottles; made of leather, which, when old, were rigid and unyielding, and easily burst by the fermenting of new wine. Both these examples are intended as only striking cases of incongruity and unfitness, to give point and emphasis to the declaration of the unsuitableness of fasting and mourning under the circumstances in which the Savior and his disciples were placed. We are not to press the details of the similitude so far as to attempt to find any thing in the previous discourse corresponding to the two kinds of wine or cloth, or to the bottles.