so no-body that has been drinking old wine, will immediately call for new: for 'tis his maxim, "the old is best."

and likewise those of the Pharisees, are frequently fasting and praying, while yours are employed in eating and drinking?

but if the servant should say within himself, my master delays his return; and fall a beating his fellow-servants, indulging himself in eating and drinking to excess.

won't he rather say, get ready my supper, dress yourself, and wait upon me, till I have done eating and drinking; after that, take your meal?

eating and drinking, marriages and matches was the business till the very day that Noah entred into the ark, when the flood came and overwhelm'd them all.

and as it was in the days of Lot, they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building:

nor will any one put new wine into old skins: if they do, the new wine will burst the skins, and wine and skins be all lost.

he shall appear as a divine messenger. he shall drink neither wine, nor any other strong liquor: he shall be filled with the holy spirit, even from his infancy: