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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Judges 14:18 - 14:18
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If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle - a metaphor borrowed from agricultural pursuits, in which not only oxen but cows and heifers were, and continue to be, employed in dragging the plough. Divested of metaphor, the meaning is taken by some in a criminal sense, but probably means no more than that they had resorted to the aid of his wife - an unworthy expedient, which might have been deemed by a man of less noble spirit and generosity as releasing him from the obligation to fulfil his bargain.