Proverbs 15:17
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is,.... What Plautus (i) calls "asperam et terrestrem caenam", "a harsh and earthly supper", made of what grows out of the earth; which is got without much cost…
Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
Barnes' Notes
A dinner of herbs - The meals of the poor and the abstemious. The “stalled ox,” like the “fatted calf” of Luk 15:23, would indicate a stately magnificence.
Solomon had said in the foregoing verse that he who has not a large estate, or a great income, but a cheerful spirit, has a continual feast; Christian contentment, and joy in God, make the life easy…
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