Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Exodus 16:21
And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.
It melted – This refers to the manna which was not gathered.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
To wit, as much of it as was left upon the ground. This was not from its own nature, which was so solid that it could endure the fire, and was bruised by a pestle; but from Gods wise providence, partly, that it might not be corrupted or trodden under foot, or otherwise abused, and so despised; partly, that it might not remain there to tempt any of them to gather more of it than they should; and partly, that all their stock of provision being wasted, they might be obliged to the more entire dependence upon God. And this is here mentioned as a reason why they gathered it in the morning.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And they gathered it every morning,…. From the time the morning began, during four hours, or to the fourth hour, as the Targum of Jonathan; that is, till ten o’clock in the morning: this was a very wonderful thing that bread should be provided and rained every morning about the camp of Israel, in such plenty as to be sufficient to feed such a vast body of people; and that for forty years together:
every man according to his eating; according to the number of persons he had in his family to eat of it, and as much as everyone could eat; there never was any lack or scarcity of it, but every morning there it was for them, and they gathered it, an omer for everyone:
and when the sun waxed hot, it melted; and so what was left ungathered, being exhaled by the sun and laid up in the clouds, generated and increased, and became a provision to be let down the next morning; it being the will of God that it should not be trampled upon or exposed; and that the Israelites might be diligent, and not neglect the time of gathering it: and the Targum of Jonathan says, from the fourth hour, or ten o’clock and onward, the sun was hot upon it and melted it, which is the time of day when the sun is hottest: and some things, we may observe, are hardened by the sun, and others are softened, as the manna was, even to a liquefaction; though otherwise it was of so hard a nature as to be beaten in a mortar and ground in a mill, Nu 11:8.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
‘And they gathered it morning by morning, every man according to his eating, and when the sun grew hot it melted.’
Each morning they gathered an omer per person according to the number in each tent. And ‘when the sun grew hot it melted’. While this does not exclude ants as partly consuming it, it demonstrates that it was not mainly ants which disposed of it.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Psa 136:25 .
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Exo 16:21 And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.
Ver. 21. It melted. ] Or, Putrified, faded, dissolved. Some Papists derive their Mass from this root: and well it may; nam per eam omnis pietas linquefacta est et dissoluta, saith Rivet: for it is the utter bane of all good, as being a mass or heap of abominations.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
it melted. See note on Num 14:9.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Pro 6:6-11, Ecc 9:10, Ecc 12:1, Mat 6:33, Joh 12:35, 2Co 6:2
Reciprocal: Exo 16:22 – General Pro 30:8 – feed
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Exo 16:21. It melted As much of it as was left upon the ground, not, it seems, from its own nature, which was so solid that it could endure the fire; but that it might not be corrupted, or trodden under foot, or despised, and that they might be compelled, as it were, to the more entire dependance upon God.