He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied you.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
And. Or "though. "This increases their ingratitude.
Filled. Hebrew, "I will fill thee "which reading few admit. St. Jerome agrees with us. (Berthier)
Protestants, (16) "the haters of the Lord should have submitted (marginal note, lied) to him; but their time should have endured for ever. (17) He should have fed them, (v rather signifies "him "Haydock) also with the finest of wheat, and with honey out of the rock, should I have satisfied thee. "This sudden change seems rather abrupt, though God may have spoken either in the first or third person, from ver. 6. (Haydock)
Rock. He fed them in the desert with manna, and the water seemed most delicious, as they were thirsty; unless he speaks of real honey. (Menochius)
The promised land was very fruitful; but all this prefigured the favours which God bestows upon his servants, in the blessed Eucharist, 1 Corinthians x. 4. (Calmet)
How many, like Judas, partake of them, and prove faithless! (St. Augustine)
