Exodus 17:6 Douay-Rheims

Behold I will stand there before thee, upon the rock Horeb: and thou shalt strike the rock, and water shall come out of it that the people may drink. Moses did so before the ancients of Israel:

Ambrose of Milan

A.D. 339–397 Patristic

The people of the fathers thirsted, Moses touched the rock, and water flowed out of the rock. Did not grace work a result contrary to nature, so that the rock poured forth water, which by nature it did not contain?

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A.D. 397 · on Exod 17:6 (On the Mysteries 9.51)

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