Mínshùjì 13:27

27 Yòu gàosu Móxī shuō , wǒmen dào le nǐ suǒ dǎfa wǒmen qù de nà dì , guǒrán shì liú nǎi yǔ mì zhī dì . zhè jiù shì nà dì de guǒzi .

Mínshùjì 13:27 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 13:27

And they told him
Moses, who was the chief ruler whom they addressed, and to whom they directed their speech:

and said, we came unto the land whither thou sentest us;
the land of Canaan, which they were sent by Moses to spy; this was said by ten of them or by one of them as their mouth; for Caleb and Joshua did not join with them in the following account, as appears from ( Numbers 13:30 ) ;

and surely it floweth with milk and honey;
they own that the land answered to the description which the Lord had given of it when it was promised them by him, ( Exodus 3:8 ) ;

and this [is] the fruit of it;
pointing to the bunch of grapes, the pomegranates and figs; not that these were a proof of its flowing with milk and honey, at least in a literal sense, but of the goodness and fruitfulness of the land: though the luxury of Bacchus, the god of wine, is by the poet ^F13 described, not only by a fountain of wine, but by rivers of milk and flows of honey.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 "Vinique fontem" Horat. Carmin. l. 2. Ode 19.

Mínshùjì 13:27 In-Context

25 Guō le sì shí tiān , tāmen kuītàn nà dì cái huí lái ,

26 Dào le Bālán kuàngyĕ de Jiādīsī , jiàn Móxī , Yàlún , bìng Yǐsèliè de quánhuì zhòng , huí bào Móxī , Yàlún , bìng quánhuì zhòng , yòu bǎ nà dì de guǒzi gĕi tāmen kàn .

27 Yòu gàosu Móxī shuō , wǒmen dào le nǐ suǒ dǎfa wǒmen qù de nà dì , guǒrán shì liú nǎi yǔ mì zhī dì . zhè jiù shì nà dì de guǒzi .

28 Ránér zhù nà dì de mín qiángzhuàng , chéngyì yĕ jiāngù kuān dà , bìngqiĕ wǒmen zaì nàli kànjian le Yànà zú de rén .

29 Yàmǎlì rén zhù zaì nán dì . Hèrén , Yēbùsīrén , Yàmólìrén zhù zaì shān dì . Jiānán rén zhù zaì hǎi bian bìng Yuēdànhé páng .