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Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
With the abundance of her glory "From her abundant stores" - For mizziz , from the splendor, two MSS. and the old edition of 1488, have mizziv ; and the latter zain is upon a rasure in three other MSS. It is remarkable that Kimchi and Sal. ben Melec, not being able to make any thing of the word as it stands in the text, say it means the same with mizziv ; that is, in effect, they admit of a various reading, or an error in the text. But as Vitringa observes, what sense is there in sucking nourishment from the splendor of her glory? He therefore endeavors to deduce another sense of the word ziz ; but, as far as it appears to me, without any authority. I am more inclined to accede to the opinion of those learned rabbins, and to think that there is some mistake in the word; for that in truth is their opinion, though they disguise it by saying that the corrupted word means the very same with that which they believe to be genuine. So in Isaiah 41:24 they say that apha, a viper, means the same with ephes, nothing; instead of acknowledging that one is written by mistake instead of the other. I would propose to read in this place mizzin or mizzen , which is the reading of one of De Rossi' s MS., (instead of meziz ), from the stores, from zun , to nourish, to feed; see Genesis 45:23; II Chronicles 11:23; Psalm 144:13. And this perhaps may be meant by Aquila, who renders the word by ? with which that of the Vulgate, ab omnimoda gloria , and of Symmachus and Theodotion, nearly agree. The Chaldee follows a different reading, without improving the sense; meyin , from the wine. - L.
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