16And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
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(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: …
Be not ye therefore partakers with them. …
I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, …
Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-19)Here is, 1. A general rule concerning fishes, which were clean and which not. All that had fins and scales they might eat, and only those odd sorts of water-animals that have not were forbidden, Lev. 11:9 , 10 . The ancients accounted fish the most delicate food (so far were they from allowing it on fasting-days, or making it an instance of mortification to eat fish); therefore God did not lay muc…
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