So that the expression of Scripture is more Emphatical than is commonly apprehended, when 'tis said, _The people were scattered abroad through all the Land of Ægypt to gather Stubble instead of Straw_. For the Stubble being very short, the acquist was difficult; a few Fields afforded it not, and they were fain to wander far to obtain a sufficient quantity of it. [Sidenote: _Flowers of the Vine._ Cant. 2. 13.] 21. It is said in the _Song of Solomon_, that _the Vines with the tender Grape give a good smell_. That the Flowers of the Vine should be Emphatically noted to give a pleasant smell, seems hard unto our Northern Nostrils, which discover not such Odours, and smell them not in full Vineyards; whereas in hot Regions, and more spread and digested Flowers, a sweet savour may be allowed, denotable from several humane expressions, and the practice of the Ancients, in putting the dried Flowers of the Vine into new Wine to give it a pure and flosculous race or spirit, which Wine was therefore called Οἰνάθινον, allowing unto every _Cadus_ two pounds of dried Flowers. And, therefore, the Vine flowering but in the Spring, it cannot but seem an impertinent objection of the Jews, that the Apostles were _full of new Wine_ at _Pentecost_ when it was not to be found. Wherefore we may rather conceive that the word Γλεύκυ[194] in that place implied not _new Wine_ or _Must_, but some generous strong and sweet Wine, wherein more especially lay the power of inebriation. [194] Acts 2. 13. But if it be to be taken for some kind of _Must_, it might be some kind of Ἀεγίλευκος, or long-lasting _Must_, which might be had at any time of the year, and which, as _Pliny_ delivereth, they made by hindring, and keeping the _Must_ from fermentation or working, and so it kept soft and sweet for no small time after. [Sidenote: _The Olive Leaf in_ Gen. 8. 11.] 22. When the _Dove_, sent out of the Ark, return'd with _a green Olive Leaf_, according to the Original: how the Leaf, after ten Months, and under water, should still maintain a verdure or greenness, need not much amuse the Reader, if we consider that the Olive Tree is Ἀείφυλλον, or continually green; that the Leaves are of a bitter taste, and of a fast and lasting substance. Since we also find fresh and green Leaves among the Olives which we receive from remote Countries; and since the Plants at the bottom of the Sea, and on the sides of Rocks, maintain a deep and fresh verdure. How the Tree should stand so long in the Deluge under Water, may partly be allowed from the uncertain determination of the Flows and Currents of that time, and the qualification of the saltness of the Sea, by the admixture of fresh Water, when the whole watery Element was together.