Test your servants, I beseech you, ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat, and water to drink.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Pulse. That is, pease, beans, and such like. (Challoner)
St. Basil hence shows the advantages of fasting; and Catholics, who imitate Daniel, may expect the like reward in heaven: and hope that such a pattern would not displease their dissenting brethren, but rather screen them from their profane sarcasms. (Haydock)
