Behold, the days come, saith the Lord
Or "are coming" {y}; and which will commence upon the
accomplishment of the above things, when the church of Christ is
raised up and established, the Jews converted, and the Gentiles
brought in: that the ploughman shall overtake the
reaper;
or "meet the reaper" F26; or come up to him, or touch him,
as it may be rendered; and so the Targum; that is, before the
reaper has well cut down the grain, or it is scarce gathered in,
the ploughman shall be ready to plough up the ground again, that
it may be sown, and produce another crop: and the treaders
of grapes him that soweth seed;
or "draweth seed" F1; out of his basket, and scatters it
in the land; signifying that there should he such an abundance of
grapes in the vintage, that they would continue pressing till
seedtime; and the whole denotes a great affluence of temporal
good things, as an emblem of spiritual ones; see ( Leviticus
26:5 ) ; where something of the like nature is promised, and
expressed in much the same manner: and the mountains shall
drop sweet wine;
or "new wine" F2; intimating that there shall be
abundance of vines grow upon the mountains, which will produce
large quantities of wine, so that they shall seem to drop or flow
with it: and all the hills shall melt;
with liquors; either with wine or honey, or rather with milk,
being covered with flocks and herds, which shall yield abundance
of milk; by all which, plenty of spiritual things, as the word
and ordinances, and rich supplies of grace, as well as of
temporal things, is meant; see ( Joel 3:18 ) .