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Keil & Delitzsch on Jeremiah 24:2

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Commentary on the Old Testament
C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch · 19th-century historical commentary
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"The one basket very good figs" is short for: the basket was quite full of very good figs; cf. Friedr. W. M. Philippi, on the Nature and Origin of the Status constr. in Hebrew (1871), p. 93. The comparison to early figs serves simply to heighten the idea of very good; for the first figs, those ripened at the end of June, before the fruit season in August, were highly prized dainties. Cf. Isa 28:4; Hos 9:10. Jeremiah 24:3
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