In this mountain, the LORD of Armies will make all peoples a feast of choice meat, a feast of choice wines, of choice meat full of marrow, of well refined choice wines.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 6. Mountain of Sion, a figure of the Church, and of heaven. The Jews shall feast: yea, some of all nations shall partake of the blessed Eucharist, and obtain heaven. The expressions are too grand for a corruptible feast. Calmet.—Wine. Lit. “of vintage,” ( Bible.) on which occasion great rejoicings were made. Hesiod. Hercul. 297.—Prot. “of wines on the lees.” Bible.—In the East, the wines were very thick. Psalms 75:9. Calmet.—On the rejection of the Jews, the Gentiles were converted. Worthington.
literally, fat things