“The former people, departing from Egypt under the leadership of Moses, journeyed through the deserts and pitched their tents in uninhabitable places, as the history of the Pentateuch recounts. In the same way, the people who follow now, that is, the Christians, journey through the desert of this world under the guidan…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on Wisdom, PL 109
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2They went through the wilderness that was not inhabited, and pitched tents in places where there lay no way.
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1She prospered their works in the hand of the holy prophet.
— Wisdom of Solomon 11:2 —
3They stood against their enemies, and were avenged of their adversaries.
4When they were thirsty, they called upon thee, and water was given them out of the flinty rock, and their thirst was quenched out of the hard stone.