Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 7:15

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15. Butter —rather, curdled milk, the acid of which is grateful in the heat of the East ( :- ). honey —abundant in Palestine ( Judges 14:8 ; 1 Samuel 14:25 ; Matthew 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 Immanuel Jesus Christ, about to be fed as other infants ( Luke 2:52 ). Isaiah 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 Isaiah 8:4 ; Deuteronomy 1:39 ; Jonah 4:11 ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-16" class="com-number"

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