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Gen_27:9 Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth:
Ver. 9. Savoury meat for thy father, &c.] She knew his diet, and could fit his tooth. The wife is to take care to please ( ìåñéìíá ) her husband; to use her wits, and busy her thoughts how to give him content in diet, and other things of the world, as the apostle hath it. {1Co_7:34} It was devilish policy in Agrippina, the mother of Nero - and it came home to her - to temper the poison that she gave her husband Claudius the emperor, in the meat he most delighted in, {a} and then to make a jest of it. Let us be sure to bring God such service as he loveth. He will eat, not only our "honey," but our "honeycomb"; he will drink, not only our "wine," but our "milk"; {Son_5:1} take in good part unperfect performances, so the heart be upright. But displeasing service is a double dishonour. The fat of rams was rejected with infinite disdain, where the hands are full of blood, the heart of sin. {Isa_1:11; Isa_1:15} The philosopher {b} could complain of his countrymen, that when they went to offer sacrifice to health, they did then banquet most riotously against health.
{a} Dixit Nero boletos èåùí âñùìá åéíáé , quod Claudius boleto in numerum Deorum relatus esset. - Dio.
{b} Diog. Laert.