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Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, Than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes

AlbertBarnes

18th Century
Presbyterian
18th Century

A dinner of herbs The meals of the poor and the abstemious. The stalled ox, like the fatted calf of ([Ref…

John Gill

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century
Reformed Baptist
17th Century

Better [is] a dinner of herbs, where love is

What Plautus F9 calls "asperam et terrestrem caenam", "a h…

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century
Presbyterian
17th Century

Believers often have enough when worldly eyes see little; the Lord is with them, without the cares, troubles, and temptations that accompany the we…

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