And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
Ver. 6. In the midst] The voice of the Lamb, Revelation 5:6, who appoints and orders all; he cuts us out our several conditions, cautioning for the wine and oil, when other food faileth.
A measure of wheat] χοινιξ, a quart, say some, a pottle others, an allowance for a day. Among the Greeks, saith Suidas, Choenix dietim dabatur. And that the Israelites in the wilderness (according to Rabanus) had each of them three choenices of manna by the day, that was to be ascribed to the divine bounty, as Junius noteth.