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.| 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.| And again, the Prophet upbraiding them says, |Oh foolish people and unwise, have ye thus requited the Lord?| 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.| Here the Prophet has plainly set forth the wine mingled with myrrh which the Lord has given Him to drink.
Ps. lxix.21 Deut. xxxii.32
Deut. xxxii.6
Cant. v.1