For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
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Gill's Exposition
Bread corn is bruised,.... The corn which bread is made of is bruised and ground in a mill:
because he will not always be threshing it; for there is another way of bringing it to flour, that so it…
Barnes' Notes
For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument - The word used here (חרוּץ chârûts) denotes properly that which is pointed or sharp, and is joined with מורג môrag in Isa 41:15 -…
This parable, which (like many of our Saviour's parables) is borrowed from the husbandman's calling, is ushered in with a solemn preface demanding attention, He that has ears to hear, let him hear,…
Threshing is not bruising. Three methods of threshing are alluded to. (a) Beating with a rod or flail (cf. Jdg 6:11; Rth 2:17). (b) Treading with the feet of cattle (Deu 25:4; Mic 4:13; but see on Isa…
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