A Commentary on the Apostles' Creed 26
26 Section 26 PL 21, 363
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.
Refertur etiam quod aceto potatus sit, vel vino myrrhato, quod est amarius felle. Audi quid de hoc Propheta praedixerit. Et dederunt, inquit, in escam meam fel, et in siti mea potaverunt me aceto . Ad quae respondens jam tunc Moses dicebat de populo illo: Ex vineis Sodomorum vitis eorum, et palmes eorum de Gomorris [Al. Gomorra]: uva eorum, uva fellis, et botrus amaritudinis ipsis . Et iterum exprobrans eos dicit: Populus stultus et non sapiens, haec Domino retribuisti ? Sed et in Canticis eadem praenunciantur, ubi etiam hortus, in quo crucifixus est, designatur. Dicit ergo: Intravi in hortum meum, soror mea sponsa, et vindemiavi myrrham meam : ubi evidenter vinum myrrhatum, quo potatus est, declaravit.