When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Butter. Many understand "cream. "But butter was used to anoint the body, as well as oil. Non omittendum in eo (butyro) olei vim esse,Barbaros omnes infantesque nostros ita ungi. (Pliny, ix. 41.)
Oil. These hyperbolical expressions denote the utmost fertility, Genesis xlix. 11. (Calmet)
Septuagint have "milk. "On all sides, Job could behold his rich pastures and cattle, (Haydock) so that he might have washed his feet in butter and milk. The rocks also were covered with olive trees; (Menochius) or the stone used for a press made the oil gush forth. (Cajetan) (Sa)
22. Whereas we have already frequently said that Christ and the Church are one person, He, that is to say, the Head of that Body, and She the Body of that Head; these words are to be understood after the voice of the Head in one way, after the voice of the Body in another way. Whom then do we take for ‘the feet’ of the Lord, but the holy Preachers. Of whom He saith, And I will walk in them. [Lev. 26, 12] Thus ‘the feet are washed with butter,’ because the holy Preachers are filled to the full with the fatness of good works. For, as we have already said above, scarcely is the mere preaching itself carried on without something being done wrong. For any man preaching is either drawn on into some slight indignation, if he is despised, or into some little glorying, if he is reverenced by those that hear him. Whence the Apostles too had their feet washed, that from any slight defilement contracted in the act of preaching itself they might be cleansed as from a sort of dust collected b...
