Ye shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink.
Ver. 6. Buy meat of them for money.] "Money answereth all things," saith Solomon. Ecc 10:19 Money is the monarch of the world, saith another, and bears most mastery. But that covetous Caliph of Babylon, taken by Haalon, brother to Mango the great Cham of Tartary, and commanded to eat his fill of that great wealth that he had heaped up together, found ere he died, that one mouthful of meat was more worth than a whole houseful of money. a
a Turk. Hist., fol. 113.