Ecclesiasticus 38:4
The most High hath created medicines out of the earth, and a wise man will not abhor them.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Altissimus creavit de terra medicamenta, et vir prudens non abhorrebit illa.
- Septuagint (Swete)
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Haydock's commentary
Them, as he will all superstitious remedies. (Calmet)
"A crowd of physicians killed Cæsar," said Adrian, on his death-bed. They often try experiments, and kill with impunity, (Pliny xxix. 1.)
Yet we must not condemn the prudent use of medicine. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.