And take. — The presentation of this offering, designedly simple and rustic in character, accords with the custom (1 Samuel 9:7) of approaching the prophet at all times with some present, however trifling. In itself an act simply of homage, it would easily degenerate into the treatment of the prophetic function as a mere matter of merchandise. (See above, 1 Kings 13:7.)

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