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1Sa_9:13 As soon as ye be come into the city, ye shall straightway find him, before he go up to the high place to eat: for the people will not eat until he come, because he doth bless the sacrifice; [and] afterwards they eat that be bidden. Now therefore get you up; for about this time ye shall find him.
Ver. 13. For the people will not eat until he come.] To bless and distribute the meat. A commendable custom, to crave God’s blessing on the creatures before we eat them; and to give thanks after meat; and not to sit down as an ox, and rise as an ass, not as vultures and kites, to seize upon our meat as a prey. The very heathens consecrated their cates before they tasted them, as appeareth by Homer and Virgil. And some think that the Greeks called a dinner áñéóôïí, áðï ôùí áñùí , from the prayers they premised.