Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Ver. 8. In the day of our Lord Jesus] Eleven times in these first ten verses (as Chrysostom well observeth) the apostle mentioneth the Lord Jesus Christ, who was to him, and should be to us, mel in ore, melos in aure, iubilum in corde, honey in the mouth, music in the ear, joy in the heart. (Bernard.) The Jews used to cast to the ground the Book of Esther, before they read it, because the name of God is not in it. This is ill done of them. But that is recorded to the commendation of Augustine, that he cast by Cicero's writings (though otherwise very delightful to him) because he found not in them that mellifluous a name of Jesus.
a Flowing with honey, honey dropping; sweetened with or as with honey. Now rare. ŒD