OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 24:21

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Those who eat me will be hungry for more. Those who drink me will be thirsty for more.

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Verse 21. Onyx. A shell-fish in the Indies, which feeds on the spica nardi, and hence becomes odoriferous.—Aloes, (gutta) the finest myrrh.—Not cut. Greek “in a tent.”—And my, and so forth is not in Greek Wisdom is compared to what was most esteemed. Calmet.

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