Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
Which came up in a night - St. Jerome, speaking of this plant, the kikayon , assigns to it an extraordinary rapidity of growth. It delights in a sandy soil, and in a few days what was a plant grows into a large shrub. But he does not appear to have meant the ricinus ; this however is the most likely. The expressions coming up in a night and perishing in a night are only metaphorical to express speedy growth and speedy decay; and so, as we have seen, the Chaldee interprets it, "which existed this night but in the next night perished;" and this I am satisfied is the true import of the Hebrew phrase.
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