He casts forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
His chrystal. Some understand it of hail, which is as it were ice, divided into bits, or morsels. (Challoner) (Ecclesiasticus xliii. 22.) (Calmet)
In summer and winter God sends proper moisture for the earth. (Tirinus)
The most hardened are sometimes converted: but this must be the effect of grace. (Worthington)
Cold. If it were to continue, all would perish. He therefore sends the warm (Calmet) "south wind. "(Syriac)