1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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Sirach 38:5 *Was not bitter water made sweet with wood?

Exodus 15:25.
Wood, of various sorts. (Grotius) --- Many suppose that he alludes to the miracle of Moses, (Exodus 15:25.) who thus was supernaturally informed (Calmet) of the effects of a certain wood. (Tirinus) (Menochius) (St. Augustine, q. lvii. in Ex.)