Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.

Ver. 15. Butter and honey shall he eat,] i.e., He shall be fed with children's meat, after the manner of other infants; for, as he shall take upon him our nature, so shall he also partake with us in our natural infirmities, feeding, as other children there did, on "butter and honey," a not able to discern good from evil, through want of judgment, till he came to be of discretion, Luk 2:52 Deu 1:39 that he might be in all things like unto us, and that we might once come "unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ"; Eph 4:13 that we might become "strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might"; able to "do all things through Christ, that strengtheneth us" Php 4:7 Stumble not at his weakness, but gather assurance of his love who so sweetly joined his majesty to our meanness - his might to our weakness, abasing himself to the shape and state of a feeble, weak, and helpless child.

a Noematica periphrasis.

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