God's favour and grace is always ready to be found when it is faithfully sought. Our faith can never make Him tardy in desiring that at the present which He cannot give till hereafter, or in being beforehand to demand that which His ability is behindhand to perform. The messengers say not in the Gospel, Be there at such a time, and in the meanwhile things shall be prepared, or, Go with me now, and dinner will be ready anon; but Come, for all things are now ready.--_Dod._ Christ provideth for His the best of the best; "fat things full of marrow, wines on the lees" (Isa. xxv. 6); His own blood, which is drink indeed; besides that continual feast of a good conscience, whereat the holy angels saith Luther, are as cooks and butlers, and the blessed Trinity joyful guests. Mr. Latimer says that the assurance of salvation is the sweetmeats of this stately feast.--_Trapp._ Without asking what the flesh and wine especially mean, they are figures of the manifold enjoyment which makes at once _strong_ and _happy._--_Delitzsch._ Verse 3. "_Her maidens._" Sermons and providential strokes, the whole heraldry of the doctrine of salvation.--_Miller._ Wisdom being personified as a feminine word, fitly has maidens as her ministers here. May there not also be an intimation (as Gregory and Bede suggest) of the natural _feebleness_ of the Apostles and other ministers of the Gospel who have their treasure in earthen vessels (2 Cor. iv. 7), and also of the tender _love_ which the preachers of the Gospel must feel for the souls of those to whom they are sent? . . . The great Apostle of the Gentiles speaks of himself spiritually as a _nurse_ and a _mother_.--_Wordsworth._ She, together with her maids, crieth; she puts not off all the business to them, but hath a hand in it herself. "We are workers together with God," saith Paul.--_Trapp._ Verse 4. Ignorance is not a cause that should stay men from hearing the Word of God, but rather incite them to it. Their necessity doth require it, for who hath more need of eye-salve than they whose eyes are sore? And who have more need of guides than they who have lost their sight and are become blind? And especially when the way is difficult and full of danger.--_Dod._ Verse 5. Not for the first time, in John vi., or on the night of the Last Supper, had bread and wine been made the symbols of fellowship with eternal life and truth.--_Plumptre._ Indeed, to _come_ and to _eat;_ to come to Wisdom by attention is to eat of her instructions by receiving it into the soul.--_Jermin._