Exodus 3:17 (WEB)
I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey.”’
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“If the promise of God flows with milk and honey, the ingredients which go to make that draught have the smack of this.” — editor's note: Ex. iii. 17.
Read the whole comment“…down new wine,” but not as if one might expect “must” from the stones, or its decoction from the rocks; and also hear of “a land flowing with milk and honey,” but not as if you were to suppose that you would ever gather Samian cakes from the ground; nor does God, forsooth, offer His services as a water-bailiff or a…” — editor's note: Ex. iii. 8, 17; Deut. xxvi. 9, 15.
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