These men are full of new wine.— Though there was no must or new wine at Pentecost, yet if they preserved the wine cool, it kept sweet a long time, and tasted like must. So Plutarch; "Must, if a vessel be kept in a cool place, will continue sweet, γλευκυ, for a long time." Such wines were remarkably intoxicating. See Isaiah 49:26. Sweet wine, such as the prophet there speaks of, was used in royal palaces for its gratefulness; was capable of being kept to a great age, and consequently was very inebriating. A few generations ago, sweet wines were those most esteemed in England.

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