ACC ~ Acts 2 v13

THE NEW WINE OF THE TRUTH. ARATOR: Also, the error that they are moved by new wine is, by allegorical reasoning, the truth—the intoxicating teaching of heaven has filled them from a fresh spring. New vessels have taken on new liquid and are not spoiled by the bitter [liquid] that filled the old vats, [the new vessels] drinking in from the vine which, with Christ as the cultivator, gave a banquet in words [and] from which those waters that he transformed are red, and he made the poor flavor of the [old] law boil in the books of the church. ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 1.

NEW WINE IN NEW SKINS. BEDE: These mockers nevertheless mystically bore witness to truths, for they [the disciples] were not filled with the old wine, which ran short in the marriage of the church, but with the new wine of spiritual grace. For now new wine had come in new skins,since the apostles reechoed the wonderful works of God not “in the oldness of the letter but in the newness of the Spirit.” COMMENTARY ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 2.13.

NEW WINE OF THE NEW COVENANT. CYRIL OF JERUSALEM: For in truth the wine was new, the grace of the New Testament. But this new wine was from a spiritual vine, which already had often borne fruit in the prophets and sprouted forth in the New Testament. For just as in the order of nature the vine, remaining ever the same, brings forth new fruit according to the seasons, so too the same Spirit, remaining what he is, having wrought in the prophets, now manifested something new and marvelous. His grace had indeed been granted to the fathers in times past, but now it came in superabundance; in their case they received a share of the Holy Spirit, now they were baptized in all fullness. CATECHETICAL LECTURE 17.18.