And the servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: [that] will I give to the man of God, to tell us our way.
Ver. 8. Behold, I have here at hand the fourth part of a shekel.] That was but a little, to the value of about our fivepence. But they knew that thankfulness was not to be measured of good men by the weight, but by the will of the retributor. That Persian monarch took in good part a handful of water presented to him by a poor peasant his subject, who had no better. Queen Elizabeth cheerfully received nosegays, A bunch of flowers or herbs, esp. sweet-smelling flowers; a bouquet, a posy. flowers, rosemary, from mean persons. Two mites from that poor widow went farther than two millions from some others.