26. It is related also that vinegar was given Him to drink, or wine mingled with myrrh which is bitterer than gall. Hear what the Prophet has foretold of this: “They gave Me gall to eat, and when I was thirsty they gave Me vinegar to drink.”³³⁴⁰

3340 Ps. lxix. 21

Agreeably with which Moses, even in his day, said to the people, “Their vine is of the vineyards of Sodom, and their branch of Gomorrah; their grape is a grape of gall, and their cluster a cluster of bitterness.”³³⁴¹

3341 Deut. xxxii. 32

And again, the Prophet upbraiding them says, “Oh foolish people and unwise, have ye thus requited the Lord?”³³⁴²

3342 Deut. xxxii. 6

Moreover, in the Canticles the same things are foretold, where even the garden in which the Lord was crucified is indicated: “I have come into my garden, my sister, my spouse, and have gathered in my myrrh.”³³⁴³

3343 Cant. v. 1

Here the Prophet has plainly set forth the wine mingled with myrrh which the Lord has given Him to drink.

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