Proverbs 9:5 (BSB)
“Come, eat my bread and drink the wine I have mixed.
From Proverbs 9. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Proverbs 9:5
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 9:1-12: Wisdom is here introduced as a magnificent and munificent queen, very great and very generous; that Word of God is this Wisdom in which God makes known his goodwill towards men; God the Word is this Wisdom, to whom the Father has committed all judgment.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 9:5: Come, eat of my bread,.... Which stands for all the provisions of Christ's house; it designs the Gospel, which to a believer is more than his necessary food; and the ordinance of the supper, one of the symbols of which is bread; and more especially Christ himself, the bread of God, the living bread that came down from heaven, which is to be eaten by...
- Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 9:5: Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine [which] I have mixed. (f) By meat and drink is meant the word of God, and the ministration of the sacraments, by which God nourishes his servants in his house which is the Church.
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 9:4-6: Pro 9:4-6 Now follows the street-sermon of Wisdom inviting to her banquet: 4 Who is simple? let him come hither!” Whoso wanteth understanding, to him she saith: 5 “Come, eat of my bread, And drink of the wine which I have mingled!