Wisdom 16:12
For it was neither herb, nor mollifying plaster that healed them, but thy word, O Lord, which healeth all things.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Etenim neque herba, neque malagma sanavit eos : sed tuus, Domine, sermo, qui sanat omnia.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ γὰρ οὔτε βοτάνη οὔτε μάλαγμα ἐθεράπευσεν αὐτούς, ἀλλὰ ὁ σός, Κύριε, λόγος ὁ πάντα ἰώμενος.
Haydock's commentary
Plaster, malagma. The remedy ordained by God was not naturally efficacious. (Calmet)
"Every wound of the soul has its medicine in the Scriptures." (St. Augustine, Psalm xxxvi.)
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.