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heard. The texts add "as it were".
voice. Same as noise, Rev_6:1.
measure. Greek. choenix; . App-51.
penny. App-51. Bread by weight means scarcity (compare Eze_4:10, Eze_4:16, Eze_4:17). A denarius was a day's wage (Mat_20:2), and a choenix of corn was a slave's daily ration, an amount usually purchasable for one-eighth of a denarius.
see. Omit, and read the clause "and hurt thou not" (App-105).
oil . . . wine. By Figure of speech Metalepsis this may point to special protection of the elect in famine times. See Rev_12:14. Zec_13:8. Rom_3:1, Rom_3:2; Rom_9:4, Rom_9:5.