13My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:
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I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.
Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-14)We are here quickened to the study of wisdom by the consideration both of the pleasure and the profit of it. 1. It will be very pleasant. We eat honey because it is sweet to the taste , and upon that account we call it good , especially that which runs first from the honey-comb . Canaan was said to flow with milk and honey, and honey was the common food of the country ( Luke 24:41 , 42 ), even for…
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