And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the [same] day that Isaac was weaned.
Ver. 8. And Abraham made a great feast.] A laudable custom, saith Cajetan, that the beginning of the eating of the firstborn should be celebrated with a feast. St Augustine observeth here, that this solemnity at the weaning of Isaac, was a type of our spiritual regeneration: at, and after which, the faithful keep a continual feast, a "Let us keep the festivity, εωρταζωμεν 1Co 5:7 or holy day," saith Paul, that "feast of fat things full of marrow; of wines on the lees well refined," Isa 25:6 proceeding from milk to stronger meat, Heb 5:12 and being to the world, as a weaned child. His mouth doth not water after homely provisions, that hath lately tasted of delicate sustenance.
a Aνηρ αγαθος πασαν ημεραν εορτην ηγειται - Diog. ap. Plutarch.