The mountains shall drop down new wine Namely, the vines planted upon the mountains. The hills shall flow with milk So fruitful shall the hills be, that milk shall abound everywhere. And all the rivers, &c. These expressions are all figurative, and highly poetical, and, according to Calmet, symbolical of the doctrine of the gospel; which, accompanied by the Spirit of grace, was to flow forth from Jerusalem, and to water the Gentile world, which had been as a barren and uncultivated land.

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