meaning is : the new piece put in to patch up the rent, takes away with it some of the old cloth.
26. 'Eff/ 'A/3/adap, under Abiathar) Ahimelech was the priest who gave loaves of bread to David ; but on his being put to death for that very act, his son Abiathar presently after suc ceeded to him ; and afterwards the priesthood of Abiathar and the reign of David were contemporary. The series of the priests was very well known among the Hebrews, and so the denomination of [the mode of marking] the age of David is taken from the priest of that day ; and indeed the Evangelist mentions Abiathar, in whose time the actions of David seem to have been entered in the sacred records, in preference to Ahime lech ; comp. the use of IT/, Matt. i. 11. Not unlike is the phraseology, Gen. ii. 2, on the seventh day [God ended His work ; we should have said, at the close of the sixth day], and ch. x. 25, in the days of Peleg (who was born a short while after) the earth was divided.
27."EX<-ysv, He was saying) Again beginning to address them ; comp. ch. iv. 21, 24, 26, 30, vii. 20, ix. 1 ; Luke iv. 24, v. 36, vi. 5, xv. 11 ; John i. 52. — 5/«, for the sake of) An axiom. So almost similarly 2 Mace. v. 19 : ou diet, rov TOKOV rb t6vog, dXXa dia TO 'iOvog rbv rowov o Kvpiog i£«Xf£an — lyivsro, was made) The origin and end of things is to be kept in view. The blessing of the Sabbath, Gen. ii. 3, has regard to man.
28. "fiffTf, therefore) The more obvious sense of this remark able enigmatical aphorism is, Whatever right as regards the Sabbath any man hath, I also have. The more august sense, though one kept hidden [recondite] then, as suited to the rela tions in which that time stood to the whole divine scheme, is this, The end of the institution of the Sabbath is the salvation [welfare] of man as to his soul and body. The Son of Man is bound to ensure this salvation ; and, in order to bring about this end, He the same has also authority over all things, and expressly over the Sabbath, inasmuch as it was made for man ; and with a view to [in accordance with] obtaining this end, He regulates aright the whole use of the Sabbath.