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Old wineskins (askous palaious). Not glass “bottles” but wineskins used as bottles as is true in Palestine yet, goatskins with the rough part inside. “Our word bottle originally carried the true meaning, being a bottle of leather. In Spanish bota means a leather bottle, a boot, and a butt. In Spain wine is still brought to market in pig-skins “ (Vincent). The new wine will ferment and crack the dried-up old skins.
The wine is spilled (ekcheitai), poured out.