Isaiah 38:21

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19 The living, the living man, he shall praise You,
As I do this day;
^aThe father shall make known Your truth to the children.

20 “The Lord was ready to save me;
Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments
All the days of our life, in the house of the Lord.”

21 Now ^aIsaiah had said, “Let them take a lump of figs, and apply it as a poultice on the boil, and he shall recover.”

22 And ^aHezekiah had said, “What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?”

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Adam Clarke

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Isaiah 38:21

Let them take a lump of figs, etc. - God, in effecting this miraculous cure, was pleased to order the use of means not improper for that end.

\ri720 " Folia, et, quae non maturuere, fici, strumis illinuntur omnibusque quae emollienda sunt discutiendave ." - Plin. Nat. Hist. 23:7.

\ri720 " Ad discutienda ea, quae in corporis parte aliqua coierunt, maxime possunt-ficus arida ," etc. - Celsus, 5:11.

See the note on II Kings 20:7 (note). Philemon Holland translates the passage as a medical man: "The milke or white juice that the figge tree yieldeth is of the same nature that vinegre: and therefore it will cruddle milke as well as rennet, or rendles. The right season of gathering this milkie substance is before that the figs be ripe upon the tree; and then it must be dried in the shadow: thus prepared, it is good to break impostumes, and keepe ulcer open."

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