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“Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
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Verse 1. Waters, which in that country are very scarce.—Milk. Septuagint “fat.” Calmet.—In the western Churches, wine and honey were given to the new baptized. Calmet. 7:15. Saint Jerome—Christ invites all to come to him. John 4:14,. and 7:37. The establishment of the Church is described under the figure of the return from Babylon. Calmet.—Grace is offered to all. But only those are justified who thirst, and do their best. Matthew 5:6. Worthington.
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