Proverbs 15:17
“Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.”
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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771
Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is,.... What Plautus (i) calls "asperam et terrestrem caenam", "a harsh and…
Barnes' NotesPresbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
A dinner of herbs - The meals of the poor and the abstemious. The “stalled ox,” like the “fatted calf” of Luk 15:23,…
Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714Proverbs 15:16-17
Solomon had said in the foregoing verse that he who has not a large estate, or a great income, but a cheerful spirit,…
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