Charles Ellicott Commentary


Charles Ellicott Commentary
"She hath killed her beasts; She hath mingled her wine; She hath also furnished her table:" — Proverbs 9:2 (ASV)
She has killed her beasts.— Compare to Matthew 22:4.
She has mingled her wine — i.e., probably, flavoured it with spices, to improve the flavour. (Compare to Proverbs 23:30.) But the wine used at the Passover (Matthew 26:29 and following) was mingled with water to decrease its strength.
She has also furnished her table. —“Christ has furnished His own Table, exhibiting His precious and spotless Body and Blood, which are daily celebrated at that mystic and divine board, being sacrificed in commemoration of that ever-to-be-remembered original table of that mystic and divine supper.”—S. Hippolytus (ed. Lagarde, p. 199), quoted by Wordsworth.