My son, eat thou honey, because [it is] good; and the honeycomb, [which is] sweet to thy taste:
Ver. 13. My son, eat thou honey, because it is good.] Profitable and pleasant, wholesome and toothsome. So, and much more than so, is divine knowledge. Plutarch tells of Eudoxus, that he would be willing to be burned up by the sun presently, so he might be admitted to come so near it as to learn the nature of it. How sweet must it needs be then to know Christ and him crucified! Sweeter it was to David than live honey dropping from the comb. Psalms 19:10 ; Psa 119:103 The believing Hebrews knew "within themselves" that there should be a reward, and that their expectation should not be cut off. Heb 10:34 They drew the circumference of God's promises to the centre of their hearts, and so living by faith they had the deserts of the feast of a good conscience as Master Latimer hath it: they tasted of that honey, the sweetness whereof none can find by any discourse, how elegant soever, so well as by eating of it, as Augustine speaketh.