Judg 13:15-20 | Clarke | STEP | Verse 15 Until we shall have made ready a kid - Not knowing his quality, Manoah wished to do this as an act of hospitality.

Judges 13:15-20

Verse 15

Until we shall have made ready a kid - Not knowing his quality, Manoah wished to do this as an act of hospitality. Verse 16

I will not eat of thy bread - As I am a spiritual being, I subsist not by earthly food.

And if thou wilt offer a burnt-offering - Neither shall I receive that homage which belongs to God; thou must therefore offer thy burnt-offering to Jehovah. Verse 18

Seeing it is secret? - It was because it was secret that they wished to know it. The angel does not say that it was secret, but הוא פלאי hu peli it is Wonderful; the very character that is given to Jesus Christ, Isa 9:6 : His name shall be called, פלא Wonderful; and it is supposed by some that the angel gives this as his name, and consequently that he was our blessed Lord. Verse 19

The angel did wondrously - He acted according to his name; he, being wonderful, performed wonderful things; probably causing fire to arise out of the rock and consume the sacrifice, and then ascending in the flame.