From the book of the Wisdom of Solomon (a Deuterocanonical book) Chapter 19:6-12 19:6 For the whole creation, submissive to your commands, had its very nature re-created, so that your children should be preserved from harm. 19:7 Overshadowing the camp there was the cloud; where there had been water, dry land was seen to rise; … [Read more…]
From the book of the Wisdom of Solomon (a Deuterocanonical book) Chapter 19:1-5 Wisdom 1919:1 But the godless were assailed by merciless anger to the very end, for he knew beforehand what they would do, 19:2 how, after letting his people leave and hastening their departure, they would change their minds and give chase. 19:3 … [Read more…]
From the book of the Wisdom of Solomon (a Deuterocanonical book) Chapter 18:20-25 18:20 Experience of death, however, touched the upright too, and a great many were struck down in the desert. But the Retribution did not last long, 18:21 for a blameless man hurried to their defence. Wielding the weapons of his sacred office, … [Read more…]
From the book of the Wisdom of Solomon (a Deuterocanonical book) Chapter 18:5-19 18:5 As they had resolved to kill the infants of the holy ones, and as of those exposed only one child had been saved, you punished them by carrying off their horde of children and by destroying them all in the wild … [Read more…]
From the book of the Wisdom of Solomon (a Deuterocanonical book) Chapter 18:1-4 18:1 For your holy ones, however, there was a very great light. The Egyptians, who could hear them but not see them, called them fortunate because they had not suffered too; 18:2 they thanked them for doing no injury in return for … [Read more…]