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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 7:15 - 7:15
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Butter - rather, curdled milk, the acid of which is grateful in the heat of the East (Job 20:17).
honey - abundant in Palestine (Jdg 14:8; 1Sa 14:25; Mat 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 (Luk 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; Deu 1:39; Jon 4:11).