Isa 7:15 | JFB | e4.org | 15. Butter —rather, curdled milk, the acid of which is grateful in the heat of the East ( ). honey —abundant in Palestine ( ). Physicians directed that the first food given to a child should be honey, the next milk [BARNABAS , Epistle ]. HORSLEY takes this as implying the real humanity of the Immanuel Jesus Christ, about to be fed as other infants ( ). shows that besides the fitness of milk and honey for children, a state of distress of the inhabitants is also implied, when, by reason of the invaders, milk and honey, things produced spontaneously, shall be the only abundant articles of food [MAURER ]. that he may know —rather, until He shall know. evil . . . choose . . . good —At about three years of age moral consciousness begins (compare ).

‏ Isaiah 7:15

15. Butter—rather, curdled milk, the acid of which is grateful in the heat of the East (Job 20:17).

honey—abundant in Palestine (Jud 14:8; 1Sa 14:25; Mt 3:4). Physicians directed that the first food given to a child should be honey, the next milk [BARNABAS, Epistle]. HORSLEY takes this as implying the real humanity of the Immanuel Jesus Christ, about to be fed as other infants (Lu 2:52). Isa 7:22 shows that besides the fitness of milk and honey for children, a state of distress of the inhabitants is also implied, when, by reason of the invaders, milk and honey, things produced spontaneously, shall be the only abundant articles of food [MAURER].

that he may know—rather, until He shall know.

evil . . . choose . . . good—At about three years of age moral consciousness begins (compare Isa 8:4; De 1:39; Jon 4:11).