Ecclesiasticus 38:5
Was not bitter water made sweet with wood?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Nonne a ligno indulcata est aqua amara ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Verse numbering differs here, so nothing is shown rather than the wrong verse.
Haydock's commentary
Wood, of various sorts. (Grotius)
Many suppose that he alludes to the miracle of Moses, (Exodus xv. 25.) who thus was supernaturally informed (Calmet) of the effects of a certain wood. (Tirinus) (Menochius) (St. Augustine, q. lvii. in Ex.)
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.