Pulse

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• A sort of foodDaniel 1:12Daniel 1:16

The passages, in Bible order (2)

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1. Daniel 1:12

   “Please test your servants for ten days. Let us be given only vegetables to eat and water to drink.

   ›Commentary on Daniel 1:122 voices

   “Verse 12. "I beg thee, try us thy servants for ten days, and let pulse be given us to eat and water to drink." His faith was so incredibly great that he not only promised he would be in good flesh by eating the humbler food, but he even set a time-limit. Therefore it was not a matter of temerity but of faith, for the sake of which he despised the sumptuous fare of the king.

   “Give us pulse to eat - הזרעים hazzeraim, seeds or grain, such as barley, wheat, rye, and peas, etc. Though a vegetable diet might have produced that healthiness of the system in general, and of the countenance particularly, as mentioned here; yet we are to understand that there was an especial blessing of God in this, because this spare diet was taken on a religious account.

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2. Daniel 1:16

   So the steward continued to withhold their choice food and the wine they were to drink, and he gave them vegetables instead.

   ›Commentary on Daniel 1:162 voices

   “Thus Melzar took away the portion of their meat,....

   “Thus Melzar took away the portion of their meat ... - Doubtless permanently. The experiment had been satisfactory, and it was inferred that if the course of temperance could be practiced for ten days without unhappy results, there would be safety in suffering it to be continued. We may remark on this: I. That the experiment was a most important one, not only for the object then immediately in view, but for furnishing lessons of permanent instruction adapted to future times.

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