Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a
serpent?
] Which is somewhat like a fish, especially an eel. Fish and
bread are mentioned, because these were common food; see (
Mark 6:41 ) (
Mark 8:6 Mark 8:7 ) ( John 21:13 ) and
particularly in Galilee, a fish country, where Christ now was,
and from whence he had called his disciples, who were fishermen.
In ( Luke
11:12 ) it is added, "or if he shall ask an egg, will he
offer him a scorpion?" which is used, as the rest, to show the
absurdity and inhumanity of such conduct; and that indeed nothing
of this kind is to be found among men, unless it be among
monsters in nature.
Matthew 7:10
