Proverbs 9:2

She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.

Ver. 2. She hath killed her beasts.] Christ provideth for his the best of the best, "fat things full of marrow, wines on the lees," Isa 25:6 his own "flesh, which is meat indeed, his own blood, which is drink indeed," Joh 6:55 besides that continual feast of a good conscience, whereat the holy angels, saith Luther, are as cooks and butlers, and the blessed Trinity joyful guests.

She hath mingled her wine.] That it may not inflame or distemper. Christ spake "as the people were able to hear," lisping to them in their own low language. So must all his ministers, accommodating themselves to the meanest capacities. Mercer's note here is, Cam sobrietate tractandae Scriptnrae, The Scriptures are to be handled with sobriety.

She hath also furnished her table.] So that it even sweats with variety of precious provisions wherewith her guests are daily and daintily fed. Mr Latimer says, that the assurance of salvation is the desert of this stately feast. But what a dolt was Cardinal Bobba, who, speaking in commendation of the library of Bonony - which being in an upper room, hath under it a victualling house, and under that a wine cellar - had thought he had hit it in applying thereunto this text, Wisdom hath built her a house, hath mingled her wine, and furnished her table! a

a Angel. Roccha in Vatican, p. 395.