Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 104:15

15 And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oyl to make his face to shine , and bread , which strengthneth mans heart .

He also bringeth out of the Earth the Vines which yield Wine.

He alludes to the custom of those times and places which was upon solemn and festival occasions to anoint their Faces with Oyl. See Psal. 23. 5. But these words with the former are by divers Learned Interpreters rendred otherwise, which seems more agreeable to the order and contexture of the Hebrew Text, And (he giveth) wine that maketh glad the heart of man, to make, (or, that he may make, i. e. that thereby he may also make) his face to shine more than oyl, i. e. more than it shineth when it is anointed with Oyl: or, as with o[illegible: 1+ letters]l. So he speaks onely of the Wine which he commends from two qualities, that it makes the heart chearful and the countenance pleasant.

i. e. Bread Corn, by a Metonymy.

Which hath a singular faculty to preserve or renew our strength and vigour; whence it is called the staff of life.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1 word]. 9. 13.; [illegible: 1 word]. to make [illegible: 1 word] shine [illegible: 1 word] oil, or, [illegible: 1 word] oil.