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Matthew 9:16

Undressed cloth (rakouv agnafou). An unfulled, raw piece of woollen cloth that will shrink when wet and tear a bigger hole than ever.

A worse rent (xeiron sxisma). Our word "schism." The "

patch" (plhrwma, filling up) thus does more harm than good.

Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Matthew 9:16:

Matthew 13:3
Mark 2:18
Mark 2:21
Luke 5:36
John 7:43
1 Corinthians 1:10

 

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