“qui appellatus est Nehelescol, id est Torrens botri, eo quod botrum portassent inde filii Israël.”
“And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.”
“After forty days the men returned from spying out the land,”
“They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.”
“And they returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.”
Or, the valley of Eshcol, that is, of grapes.
Verses 21-25 The searchers of the land brought a bunch of grapes with them, and other fruits, as proofs of the goodness of the country; which was to Israel both the earnest and the specimen of all the fruits of Canaan. Such are the present comforts we have in communion with God, foretastes of the fulness of joy we expect in the heavenly Canaan. We may see by them what heaven is.