Jeremias 13
John Chrysostom · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Jeremias 13:12
And these things he said, setting laws and rules for his own disciples, that when they should have to receive as disciples those of all sorts that should come from the whole world, they might deal with them very gently. "Neither is new wine put into old wineskins." Consider how his illustrations are like those in the Old Testament. The garment? The wineskins? For Jeremiah, too, calls the people "a waistcloth" and makes mention again of "jar" and of "wine." Thus, the discourse being about gluttony and a table, he takes his illustrations from the same. — HOMILIES ON THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW 30:5
Jeremias 13:23
Moreover, what did the prophet say? "If the Ethiopian changes his skin and the leopard its spots, this people will be able to do well, when it has learned evil." He did not mean that it was impossible for them to practice virtue, but that they did not wish to do so; therefore, they could not. — HOMILIES ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 68