“What that rock from which the Israelites drank was to signify is attested to by Paul with these words, "They drank from a spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was the Christ." This rock, struck by the wood of the cross and announced by the spirits (that is, by the writings) of the prophets, poured forth…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — ON ECCLESIASTICUS 2:8
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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.
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2They went through the wilderness that was not inhabited, and pitched tents in places where there lay no way.
3They stood against their enemies, and were avenged of their adversaries.
— Wisdom of Solomon 11:4 —
5For by what things their enemies were punished, by the same they in their need were benefited.
6For instead of a perpetual running river troubled with foul blood,