Wisdom of Solomon 18
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1BVt thy Saints had a very great light, whose voyce because they heard, and sawe not the figure of them, they thoght them blessed, because thei also had not suffred the like. 2And because they did not hurt them, which did hurt them afore, they thanked them, and asked pardon for their enimitie. 3Therefore thou gauest them a burning piller of fyre to lead them in the vnknowen way, & madest the sunne that it hurted not them in their honorable iourney. 4But they were worthie to be depriued of the light, and to be kept in darkenes, which had kept thy children shut vp, by whome the vncorrupt light of the Law shulde be giuen to the worlde. 5Where as they thoght to slay the babes of the Saintes, by one childe that was cast out, and preserued to reproue them, thou hast taken awaye the multitude of their children and destroyed them all together in the mightie water. 6Of that night were our fathers certified afore, that they knowing vnto what othes they had giuen credit, might be of good chere. 7Thus thy people receiued the health of the righteous, but the enemies were destroyed. 8For as thou hast punished the enemies, so hast thou glorified vs whome thou hast called. 9For the righteous children of the good men offred secretly, and made a law of righteousnes by one consent, that the Saints shulde receiue good and euil in like maner, and that the fathers shulde first sing praises. 10But a disagreing price was heard of the enemies, and there was a lamentable noice for the children that were bewailed. 11For the master and the seruant were punished with like punishment, & the commune people suffred alike with the King. 12So they altogether had innumerable that dyed with one kinde of death: nether were the liuing sufficient to burye them: for in the twinckling of an eye the noblest offspring of them was destroied. 13So they that colde beleue nothing, because of the inchantments, confessed this people to be the children of God, in the destruction of the first borne 14For while all things were in quiet silence, & the night was in the middes of her swift course, 15Thine almightie worde leapt downe from heauen out of thy royal throne, as a fierce man of warre in the middes of the land that was destroyed, 16And broght thine vnfained commandement as a sharpe sworde, and stode vp, and filled all things with death, & being come downe to the earth, it reached vnto the heauens. 17Then the sight of the feareful dreames vexed them suddenly, and fearefulnes came vpon them vnawares. 18Then laye there one here, another there halfe dead, & shewed the cause of his death. 19For the visions that vexed them, shewed them these things afore: so that they were not ignorant, wherefore they perished. 20Now tentacion of death touched the righteous also, and among the multitude in the wildernes there was a plague, but the wrath indured not long. 21For the blameles man made haste, & defended them, and toke the weapons of his ministracion, euen prayer, & the reconciliation by the perfume, & set him self against the wrath, and so broght the miserie to an end, declaring that he was thy seruant. 22For he ouercame not the multitude with bodelie power, nor with force of weapons, but with the worde he subdued him that punished, alledging the othes and couenant made vnto the fathers. 23For when the dead were fallen downe by heapes one vpon another, he stode in the middes, and cut of the wrath, and parted it from comming to the liuing. 24For in the long garment was all the ornament, and in the foure rowes of the stones was the glorie of the fathers grauen with thy maiestie in the diademe of his head. 25Vnto these the destroyer gaue place, and was afraid of them : for it was sufficient, that they had tasted the wrath.