{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/203/2030875.htm","path":"chr/ecf/203/2030875.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/203/2030875.htm","text":"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: \u201cThey gave Me gall to eat, and when I was thirsty they gave Me vinegar to drink.\u201d 3340 Agreeably with which Moses, even in his day, said to the people, \u201cTheir 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.\u201d 3341 And again, the Prophet upbraiding them says, \u201cOh foolish people and unwise, have ye thus requited the Lord?\u201d 3342 Moreover, in the Canticles the same things are foretold, where even the garden in which the Lord was crucified is indicated: \u201cI have come into my garden, my sister, my spouse, and have gathered in my myrrh.\u201d 3343 Here the Prophet has plainly set forth the wine mingled with myrrh which the Lord has given Him to drink.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. III: Life a...","type":"page"}