1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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Exodus 15:25

But he cried to the Lord, and he shewed him a tree, *which when he had cast into the waters, they were turned into sweetness. There he appointed him ordinances, and judgments, and there he proved him,

Judith 5:15.; Ecclesiasticus 38:5.

A tree, (lignum,) or piece of wood, which had the natural property here ascribed to it, Ecclesiasticus 38:4. (Calmet) --- Though we can hardly suppose, that all that collection of waters would be thus rendered sweet, unless God had given it a miraculous efficacy. (Haydock) --- It foreshewed the virtue of the cross. (Theodoret, 9:26.) --- Him, Moses, and the people of Israel, of which he was now the sole head or king. (Haydock) --- God proved on this occasion the disposition of the Hebrews to enter into the alliance, of which he proposes to them the heads, ver. seq.[following: ver. 26.?] Josue 24:25, makes use of nearly the same words. God begins to take upon himself the administration of the republic, appointing the forms of judicature, Jeremias 7:22. What regarded sacrifices, was given upon occasion of their idolatry. (Du Hamel)