“Therefore, we also ought at all times to give thanks to our Creator for our deliverance, exulting and saying with the Prophet: Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and do not forget all his benefits (Ps. 103:2). The Apostle also seems to teach us this, s…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on Wisdom, PL 109
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10For they were yet mindful of the things that were done while they sojourned in the strange land, how the ground brought forth flies instead of cattle, and how the river cast up a multitude of frogs instead of fishes.
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8Wherethrough all the people went that were defended with thy hand, seeing thy marvellous strange wonders.
9For they went at large like horses, and leaped like lambs, praising thee, O Lord, who hadst delivered them.
— Wisdom of Solomon 19:10 —
11But afterwards they saw a new generation of fowls, when, being led with their appetite, they asked delicate meats.
12For quails came up unto them from the sea for their contentment.