Mt 9:17

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Sep 13 17:07:44 EDT 1999


At 4:04 PM -0500 9/13/99, Dmitriy Reznik wrote:
>Dear friends,
>
>Could you tell me whether there is any difference between KAINOS and NEOS
>in Mt 9:17: ... ALLA BALLOUSIN OINON NEON EIS ASKOUS KAINOUS... (but they
>put new wine into new skins...)?
>And can KAINOS mean "renewed" instead of "new"?

NEOS means "young" in terms of years of age; KAINOS means "new" in the
sense of "recently established" or "recently produced." The antithesis of
NEOS is GERAIOS, of KAINOS it is PALAIOS.


Carl W. Conrad
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