Please don’t go away until I come to you, and bring out my present, and lay it before you.” He said, “I will wait until you come back.”
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 18. A sacrifice, or some provisions to present unto thee. Hebrew mincha, is taken for a present, particularly of flour and wine. It is used to denote those presents which were made by Jacob to Esau, and Joseph, and by Aod to the king of Moab. Calmet. 3:15. Genesis 43:14. Calmet.—To sacrifice, often means to kill things for a feast, Matthew 22:4. What Gedeon brought, was afterwards turned into a sacrifice by the angel, verse 21. Menochius.—Gedeon was not a priest, nor was there any altar prepared for a sacrifice. If Gedeon had intended to offer one, he would not have boiled nor baked the food, which he presented before his guest. Calmet.