They soon forgot his works; they waited not for his counsel:
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
11. "They acted hastily: they forgot His works" (ver. 13): other copies read more intelligibly, "They hastened, they forgot His works, and would not abide His counsel." For they ought to have thought, that so great works of God towards themselves were not without a purpose, but that they invited them to some endless happiness, which was to be waited for with patience; but they hastened to make themselves happy with temporal things, which give no man true happiness, because they do not quench insatiable longing: for "whosoever," saith our Lord, "shall drink of this water, shall thirst again."
Counsel. Three days after the passage of the sea, God laid injunctions upon them at Mara, which they would not observe, Exodus xv. 22. (Calmet)
They coveted unnecessary things. (Worthington)
