Bread corn is bruised with a threshing instrument, by comparing this with the foregoing verse and the following words. Because; or rather, but, or nevertheless, as the word is frequently used. The sense is, The husbandman doth indeed thresh the bread corn, but he doth it with moderation, and only for a time, not for ever. Nor break it; understand, for ever, out of the foregoing clause, as is usual in Scripture. With his horsemen; which governed the horse or horses that drew the threshing instrument. Or, with horses; for it is evident, and hath been observed before, that this Hebrew word signifies horses as well as horsemen. And this was another way of threshing out the corn, by driving horses, or other cattle, over the sheaves to tread it out; of which see Deuteronomy 25:4 Micah 4:13.

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