OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 38:5

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Wasn’t water made sweet with wood, that its power might be known?

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Verse 5. Wood, of various sorts. Grot.—Many suppose that he alludes to the miracle of Moses, (Exodus 15:25) who thus was supernaturally informed ( Calmet.) of the effects of a certain wood. Tirinus. Menochius. Saint Augustine q. lvii. in Ex.

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