“The place that offered rest to this people, with its twelve springs and seventy palm trees, has had a sacred meaning in our mysteries. In fact, after the baptism of the twelve apostles, who are our springs, spouts of pure doctrine overflow to fill hearts. The sacred psalm thus resounds, "In the churches, bless the Lor…”
Quodvultdeus, 5th c. — THE BOOK OF PROMISES AND PREDICTIONS OF GOD 1:38.55
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14I was exalted like a palm tree in En-gaddi, and as a rose plant in Jericho, as a fair olive tree in a pleasant field, and grew up as a plane tree by the water.
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12And I took root in an honourable people, even in the portion of the Lord’s inheritance.
13I was exalted like a cedar in Libanus, and as a cypress tree upon the mountains of Hermon.
— Sirach 24:14 —
15I gave a sweet smell like cinnamon and aspalathus, and I yielded a pleasant odour like the best myrrh, as galbanum, and onyx, and sweet storax, and as the fume of frankincense in the tabernacle.
16As the turpentine tree I stretched out my branches, and my branches are the branches of honour and grace.