guage of the inhabitants of earth, and therefore the more suitable to the meaning of the Saviour who was about to leave the earth. — ysw^a and yevripa occur in the LXX., also pro miscuously, when wine and the vine are spoken of. — tuf rrjs rift'ipae exiivqs x.r.X., until that day, etc.) Which had been fore told : see Luke xxii. 16, 18, 30. Hence St Paul (1 Cor. xi. 26) draws the inference that " as often as ye eat this bread and drink this cup, ye show forth the Lord's death till He come." — aurb, it) referring to the produce of the vine, i.e. tuine, evidently of heaven. — xaivbv, new) sc. in the full consummation of the New Testament. This new is placed above the new spoken of in ver. 28. See the Prelude to this in John xxi. 12.1 The Jewish Passover was superseded by the Lord's Supper, this will be again succeeded by further things of a heavenly nature. Elsewhere, in ch. ix. 17, instead of" xaivbs" we find " vtog" oJvog, new wine [where vio$ denotes newness of vintage, not novelty of kind] ; but xaivbv in this passage evidently implies a newness in nature, not in age.2 — sv ry (3a<;/Xt!q rou Tlarpbg Mov, in My Father's kingdom) see 1 Cor. xv. 24; Luke xxii. 16, 30. Thomas Gataker considers new (xaivbv) wine to be the same as erepov, different (cf. Mark xvi. 17, with Acts ii. 4),3 so as to denote wine of a kind entirely different from that which the Lord was then taking with His disciples.
30. 'Y/Avqaavrec, having sung a hymn or hymns) sc. they either sang or recited4 Ps. cxiii., cxiv., cxv., cxviii., cxxxvi., in which the
1 Our Lord's dining with them after the resurrection is a prelude to their hereafter eating and drinking at His table in His kingdom, Luke xxii. 30. —ED.
2 Kaivo$, new, is opposed to that which has existed long and been in use, ex. Gr. ip,»TiO!< Truhxtoy, Matt. ix. 16. But vio;, recent, is opposed to that which was originated some time back, as ofi/0? ^raAa/oV? Luke v. 39. Kxivov is in Matt. xxvi. 29, applied to yivvnpct T% dpnihov, because He refers to another wine than that then poured out — a wine not recent but different. See Tittm. Syn.— ED.
3 For the yA<y<7<7*/? Xo6A55ffoi/<7<j/ xonvotis of Mark answers to the 'hcthtiv fTfoettf yX<y<7<7«/j of Acts. — ED.
* After the recital of the hymn, and not previously, followed those things which John records in his chapters xv., xvi., xvii. ; for the hymn is closely connected with the Passover supper; and such is the formula of connection, John xviii. 1, that the prayers of Jesus, John xvii., cannot be separated from His departure out of the city by the hymn. We may, not without good