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15. Butter--rather, curdled milk, the acid of which is grateful in
the heat of the East
(Job 20:17).
honey--abundant in Palestine
(Jud 14:8;
1Sa 14:25;
Mt 3:4).
Physicians directed that the first food given to a child should be
honey, the next milk [BARNABAS, Epistle].
HORSLEY takes this as implying the real humanity
of the ImmanuelJesus Christ, about to be fed as other infants
(Lu 2:52).
Isa 7:22
shows that besides the fitness of milk and honey for children, a state
of distress of the inhabitants is also implied, when, by
reason of the invaders, milk and honey, things produced
spontaneously, shall be the only abundant articles of food
[MAURER].
that he may know--rather, until He shall know.
evil . . . choose . . . good--At about three years of age moral
consciousness begins (compare
Isa 8:4;
De 1:39;
Jon 4:11).
JFB.
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