Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth:
Ver. 9. Savoury meat for thy father, &c.] She knew his diet, and could fit his tooth. The wife is to take care to please (μεριμνα) her husband; to use her wits, and busy her thoughts how to give him content in diet, and other things of the world, as the apostle hath it. 1Co 7:34 It was devilish policy in Agrippina, the mother of Nero - and it came home to her - to temper the poison that she gave her husband Claudius the emperor, in the meat he most delighted in, a and then to make a jest of it. Let us be sure to bring God such service as he loveth. He will eat, not only our "honey," but our "honeycomb"; he will drink, not only our "wine," but our "milk"; Son 5:1 take in good part unperfect performances, so the heart be upright. But displeasing service is a double dishonour. The fat of rams was rejected with infinite disdain, where the hands are full of blood, the heart of sin. Isaiah 1:11 ; Isa 1:15 The philosopher b could complain of his countrymen, that when they went to offer sacrifice to health, they did then banquet most riotously against health.
a Dixit Nero boletos θεων βρωμα ειναι, quod Claudius boleto in numerum Deorum relatus esset. - Dio.
b Diog. Laert.