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Fire kept the mastery of its own power in water, and water forgot its quenching nature.
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Verse 20. Therein. For the punishment of the Egyptians. Calmet. 16:18. Calmet.—Food. Manna. Challoner.—Septuagint “immortal food,” ambrosia. Bible.—Place. This conclusion agrees very well with the preceding observations. But it seems some thing should be said respecting the original petition for wisdom; whence we conclude, with Grotius, that the work is imperfect: ( Calmet.) though this is by no means clear, as the prayer is sufficiently expressed in the nine first chapters, if not in the whole book, and God answers it, 3 Kennicott. 9. Bible.
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