Isaiah 38:21 For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaster on the boil, and he shall recover. The application of figs leaves it uncertain whether a boil (bubon) or a carbuncle (charbon) is to be supposed. Figs were a popular emolliens or maturans; they were used to hasten the rising of the swelling, and therefore the mattering-process. (F. Delitzsch, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover. |
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