OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 43:20

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The cold north wind blows and ice freezes on the water. It settles on every pool of water. The water puts it on like it was a breastplate.

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Verse 20. Shower, as if God were about to drown the world. The melting of snow occasions dreadful inundations. Calmet.—Its whiteness sometimes deprives people of their sight. Xenoph. Anab. iv.

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