OLD TESTAMENT

Wisdom 16:12

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12

For truly it was neither herb nor poultice that cured them, but your word, O Lord, which heals all people.

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Verse 12. Plaster, malagma. The remedy ordained by God was not naturally efficacious. Calmet.—“Every wound of the soul has its medicine in the Scriptures.” Saint Augustine Psalm xxxvi.

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