Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Isaiah 7:15
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Isaiah7:15
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). Is 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 Is 8:4; De 1:39; Jon 4:11).
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