Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 28:27-29
Isaiah 28:27-29. “Four methods of thrashing are here mentioned, by different instruments: the flail, the drag, the wain, and the treading of cattle. The staff, or flail, was used for the grain that was too tender to be treated in the other methods. The drag consisted of a sort of frame of strong planks, made rough at the bottom, with hard stones or iron: it was drawn by horses or oxen over the corn-sheaves spread on the floor, the driver sitting upon it. The wain was much like... read more
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 28:26
Isaiah 28:26. For his God doth instruct him The art of husbandry is so necessary for the support of human life, that all men have ascribed its original to God as the inventor and ordainer of it. The Most High hath ordained husbandry, saith the son of Sirach, Sir 7:15 . In like manner, Virgil, Georg., lib. 1. line 121: “ Pater ipse colendi Haud facilem esse viam voluit, primusq; per artem Movit agros .” “Himself invented first the shining share, And whetted human industry by care;... read more