Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not
bread?
&c.] Lavish away time, opportunities, and strength, in
reading and hearing false doctrine, which is not bread, but
chaff; is not wholesome, does not nourish, but is harmful and
destructive; eats as does a canker, instead of feeding and
refreshing; such as the vain philosophy of the Gentiles, the
traditions of the Jews, and the errors and heresies of false
teachers: and your labour for that which satisfieth
not?
labouring to seek for happiness in worldly things, which is not
to be had; or to obtain righteousness by the works of the law,
which is not to be attained to in that way; all such labour is in
vain, no satisfaction is enjoyed, nor peace and comfort had, nor
any solid food; these are husks which swine eat: hearken
diligently unto me;
not the prophet, but the Lord himself. The Targum renders it,
``my Word;''the essential Word, Christ Jesus, hearken to his doctrine, which is bread, and of a satisfying nature: and eat ye that which is good;
not the law, as the Jewish commentators; but the good word of God, the Gospel, which being found and eaten by faith, or mixed with faith by them that hear it, and so digested, is the joy and rejoicing of the heart: and let your soul delight itself in fatness;
in the goodness and fatness of the Lord's house, attending on the word and ordinances with spiritual pleasure and delight; and which is the way to become fat and flourishing in spiritual things; see ( Psalms 36:8 ) ( 65:4 ) .
