He shall come down&c. A condensed comparison, for, -he shall be like rain coming down." The simile may have been suggested by the -last words of David," 2 Samuel 23:4: cp. Proverbs 16:15; Hosea 6:3; Micah 5:7.

the mown grass The meadow which has been mown, and which needs rain to start the aftermath (Amos 7:1). The P.B.V. into a fleece of woolis an amplification of the rendering of LXX, Vulg., Symm., Jer., upon a fleece. The Heb. word means a shornfleece or a mownmeadow; probably the Ancient Versions meant fleecemetaphorically of the meadow: Coverdale's paraphrase a fleece of woolmay have been prompted by the recollection of the dew on Gideon's fleece.

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