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450. Shriveled Bottles (#97985)
450. Shriveled Bottles
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James M. Freeman
Psalm 119:83
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Psalm 119:83
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For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes. (Psalm 119:83)
. I am become like a bottle in the smoke.
Bottles made of skin (see note on
Matt. 9:17
17
Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved. (Matthew 9:17)
) are often hung up in Oriental tents. Here the smoke from the tent fire can freely act upon them, since there is no chimney to carry it away. Skins of wine were sometimes hung in the smoke to give the wine a peculiar flavor. When skin bottles are long exposed to smoke, they become hard, shriveled, and unsightly. This is the foundation of the striking figure of the text.
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