butter from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat. From the blood of the grape, you drank wine.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 14. Butter, or “cream,” as the former article was probably not yet discovered. Genesis 18:8. Calmet.—The proofs of this assertion, from the original, chemath, and from the Scripture, frequently representing butter as a liquid, seem not, however, very solid. See Judges 5:25. Proverbs 30:33. The Septuagint have lit. “the butter of oxen,” but the latter name includes all of the species. Bible.—Basan. The Septuagint have “the young of bulls and of he-goats;” though they generally translate “fat sheep.” See Saint Jerome in Isai. liii.—Wheat. Hebrew “fat of the kidneys of wheat.”—Grape. See Genesis 49:11. Androcides wrote to Alexander, who loved wine too much, “when thou art about to drink wine, remember, O king, that thou art drinking the blood of the earth.” Plin. xiv. 15.