Proverbs 9:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

She hath killed her beasts. — Comp. Matthew 22:4.

She hath mingled her winei.e., probably, flavoured it with spices, to improve the flavour. (Comp. Proverbs 23:30.) But the wine used at the Passover (Matthew 26:29, &c.) was mingled with water to decrease its strength.

She hath also furnished her table. — “Christ hath furnished His own Table, exhibiting His precious and spotless Body and Blood, which are daily celebrated at that mystic and divine board, being sacrificed in commemoration of that ever-to-be-remembered original table of that mystic and divine supper.” — S. Hippolytus (ed. Lagarde, p. 199), quoted by Wordsworth.

Proverbs 9:2

2 She hath killed her beasts;a she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.