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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 28:25 - 28:25
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face - the “surface” of the ground: “made plain,” or level, by harrowing.
fitches - rather, “dill,” or “fennel”; Nigella romana, with black seed, easily beaten out, used as a condiment and medicine in the East. So the Septuagint, “cummin” was used in the same way.
cast in ... principal wheat - rather, plant the wheat in rows (for wheat was thought to yield the largest crop, by being planted sparingly [Pliny, Natural History, 18.21]); [Maurer]; “sow the wheat regularly” [Horsley]. But Gesenius, like English Version, “fat,” or “principal,” that is, excellent wheat.
appointed barley - rather, “barley in its appointed place” [Maurer].
in their place - rather, “in its (the field’s) border” [Maurer].