“He commemorates the blessings of God, which were bestowed upon the former people through divine mercy, when, as they thirsted, He brought forth water from the rock and refreshed them with abundant drink. Likewise, on the contrary, he recounts the punishments which their enemies suffered in the slaughter of their first…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on Wisdom, PL 109
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5For by what things their enemies were punished, by the same they in their need were benefited.
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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.
— Wisdom of Solomon 11:5 —
6For instead of a perpetual running river troubled with foul blood,
7For a manifest reproof of that commandment, whereby the infants were slain, thou gavest unto them abundance of water by a means which they hoped not for: