Matthew Poole and continuators on John 2:10

10 And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine ; and when men have well drunk , then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now .

The Governour calls the Bridegroom (at whose cost the Provision for the Feast was to be provided) and mindeth him, that he seemed to have done contrary to the common practice of such as made Feasts; for they used to bring forth their best Wine first, when mens Pallates were quickest, and least adulterated; and worse

after that they had drank well; so the word [non-Latin text not transcribed] signifies, (as appears by the Septuagints Translation of the Hebrew word so signifying, Gen. 43.34. Hag. 1.6. Not onely mens distempering themselves with Wine, (which it also sometimes signifieth), and this speaketh our Translation of it, 1 Cor. 11.21. are drunken, Something hard, the word not necessarily nor always so signifieth; and they must be very uncharitable to the Primitive Church of Corinth, who can think, that it would permit persons actually drunken to the Lords table. But the custom, it seems, was, if they had any Wine worse than other, to bring it out to their Guests after that the edg of their Pallates was a little blunted with the tast of better.

Now this Bridegroom, as the Governour of the Feast (who knew nothing of the Miracle) thought, had kept his briskest and most generous Wine to the last, thereby giving a great Approbation of the Miracle, not onely owning it to be true Win[illegible: 1 letter], but much better than they had had before at the Feast.