SEV Biblia, Chapter 32:14
manteca de vacas y leche de ovejas, con grosura de corderos, y carneros de Basán; también macho cabríos, con grosura de riñones de trigo; y sangre de la uva bebiste, vino puro .
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:14
Verse 14. Fat of kidneys of wheat] Almost every person knows that the kidney is enveloped in a coat of the purest fat in the body of the animal, for which several anatomical reasons might be given. As the kidney itself is to the abundantly surrounding fat, so is the germ of the grain to the lobes or farinaceous parts. The expression here may be considered as a very strong and peculiarly happy figure to point out the finest wheat, containing the healthiest and most vigorous germ, growing in a very large and nutritive grain; and consequently the whole figure points out to us a species of wheat, equally excellent both for seed and bread. This beautiful metaphor seems to have escaped the notice of every commentator. Pure blood of the grape.] Red wine, or the pure juice of whatever colour, expressed from the grapes, without any adulteration or mixture with water: blood here is synonymous with juice. This intimates that their vines should be of the best kind, and their wine in abundance, and of the most delicious flavour.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 14. Butter of kine , etc.] Made of milk, which kine or cows give; Jarchi says, this is the fat that is gathered on the top of milk, he means cream, and which indeed was the butter of the ancients, and is here meant: and milk of sheep : which they give, though not in such plenty as the kine, yet what is very wholesome and nourishing: the philosopher observes, that sheep give more milk in proportion to the size of their bodies than cows: and Pliny says their milk is sweeter and more nourishing, and the butter made of it is the fattest: with fat of lambs ; or fat lambs, rich and delicious food: and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats ; a fruitful country abounding with pasturage, where rams and goats of the best sort were and the breed of them was coveted and had in the land of Canaan; the kine of Bashan are mentioned elsewhere, ( Psalm 22:12 Amos 4:1); with the fat of kidneys of wheat : that is, the best wheat, the grains are plump and full; and Aben Ezra observes, that a grain of wheat has some likeness to a kidney, (see Psalm 81:16 147:14); and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape ; wine which comes from the grape, red wine, pure and unmixed, (see Genesis 40:11); the land of Canaan was a land of vines, and abounded with good wine, ( Deuteronomy 8:8); which the Israelites, when they came into it, drank of in common, who had only drank water in the wilderness, and had but little flesh, and lived on manna, and now abounded with plenty of all good things; all which are observed as instances of divine goodness, and to aggravate their ingratitude in rejecting the Messiah, they then enjoying all these good things, the land being alike fertile and affluent then, as appears from ( Isaiah 7:14,15,21,22); Jarchi applies this fruitfulness to the times of Solomon, as the butter of kine, and the kidneys of wheat, ( 1 Kings 4:22,23); and fat of lambs, and the blood of the grape, to the times of the ten tribes, ( Amos 6:4-6); but this was the constant fertility of the land, and lasted to the times of the Messiah: now all these may be expressive of the blessings of grace, and the spiritual food of the Gospel: Ainsworth very prettily remarks, that here is both food for babes and for grown persons, butter and milk for the one, and meat for the other, and drink for them both: the plain truths of the Gospel are like butter, soft and easy to be taken in, and like milk, easy of digestion, cooling, nourishing, sweet, and pleasant; the more sublime truths of the Gospel are meat for strong men, signified by the flesh of fat lambs, rams, and goats; which all being used in sacrifices were typical of Christ; as also the finest of wheat is an emblem of him the bread of life, on whom the weakest believer lives by faith; and the drink for both, the wine the blood of the grape, may signify the love of Christ, the Gospel and the truths of it, and the blessings of grace, which come through the everlasting covenant.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 7-14 - Moses gives particular instances of God's kindness and concern for them. The eagle's care for her young is a beautiful emblem of Christ' love, who came between Divine justice and our guilty souls, and bar our sins in his own body on the tree. And by the preached gospel, an the influences of the Holy Spirit, He stirs up and prevails upo sinners to leave Satan's bondage. In ver. #(13, 14), are emblems of the conquest believers have over their spiritual enemies, sin, Satan, an the world, in and through Christ. Also of their safety and triumph in him; of their happy frames of soul, when they are above the world, an the things of it. This will be the blessed case of spiritual Israel in every sense in the latter day.
Original Hebrew
חמאת 2529 בקר 1241 וחלב 2461 צאן 6629 עם 5973 חלב 2459 כרים 3733 ואילים 352 בני 1121 בשׁן 1316 ועתודים 6260 עם 5973 חלב 2459 כליות 3629 חטה 2406 ודם 1818 ענב 6025 תשׁתה 8354 חמר׃ 2561
