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Elisha said to her, “What should I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?” She said, “Your servant has nothing in the house, except a pot of oil.”
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Verse 2. Anoint me, for delicacy or health. Matthew 6:17. Menochius.—To abstain from this unction, in the East, was a great mortification. 2 Kennicott. 14:2. Deuteronomy 28:40. Sanctius supposes, that the woman intended the oil to anoint her body for interment. Matthew 26:12. Hebrew asuc, occurs no where else, and my signify a pot, or “skin of oil.” The woman had nothing else. The original does not say what she intended to do with it. Calmet.—She might use it for food: (3 Kennicott. 17:12) but the Septuagint agree with the Vulg. Bible.
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