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Matthew Henry's commentary on Isaiah 30.30:
Old Mr. [John] Dod's Sayings:
Robert Leighton, Exposition of the Lord's Prayer:
John Spencer, Things New and Old, Vol. 1:
It was a common saying among the old Puritans, Brown bread and the gospel are good fare. A famine of bread is not so great a judgment as a famine of the word of God, Amos 8:11, 12.
Old Mr. [John] Dod's Sayings:
Though we have things below very rare, / Yet brown bread with the Gospel is good fare.
Robert Leighton, Exposition of the Lord's Prayer:
Though he hath no more of the world but daily bread, and of the coarsest sort, he hath a continual feast within, as he that said, Brown bread and the gospel is good fare.
John Spencer, Things New and Old, Vol. 1:
Brown bread and the Gospel (said Mr. [Richard] Greenham), is good cheer; and indeed, brown bread, and the blessing of God, is a rich banquet.