George Leo Haydock

Day. The manna dissolved with the sun beams, and God will be served with diligence. — Flesh. The sensations of my soul affect all my body. (Worthington) — Thirst is more insupportable than hunger; and the psalmist could not express his ardour better. (Calmet) — He loves God with all his strength, &c. (Haydock) — “The soul desires, but the end can be attained only by good works.” Carnis laboribus pervenitur. (St. Jerome) — O how! Protestants, “longeth for thee in a dry,” &c. But come is no Hebrew verb, and occurring no where else, is little understood by the Jews. It seems that comu , “as,” should be here, to correspond with the following so. “As my flesh thirsts in this, &c., so in the, ” &c. I shall find no less pleasure in attending thy worship, than a thirsty traveller does in finding water. (Calmet) — Theodotion agrees with the Septuagint, in considering this as a compound word posaplos , (Calmet) and we had best stick to the most ancient version. (Berthier)