4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:



Ver. 4. If it be received with thanksgiving] While we taste the sweetness of the Creator in the creature, and are stirred up thereby to praise his name. Doves at every grain they pick look upwards, as giving thanks. The elephant is said to turn up towards heaven the first sprig or branch that he feedeth on, &c. Birds chirp and sing to their Maker.