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Judges 6:40

And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.
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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
Ground. In these two miracles the Fathers observe, that the fleece represented the Jewish nation, favoured with so many graces, while the rest of the world was dry and barren; and that, when the latter was watered with dew from heaven, by the coming of Jesus Christ, the Synagogue was deprived of those favours. (Origen, hom. viii.; Theodoret, q. 14.; St. Jerome, ad Paulin.; St. Augustine;) In the first miracle we may also contemplate, the incarnation of our Saviour , Psalm lxxi. 6. (St. Bernard, serm.; St. Jerome, epist. Paul.) (Calmet)
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