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And the expectation from within, being less, counteth the ignorance more than the cause
which bringeth the torment.
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But they sleeping the same sleep that night, which was indeed intolerable, and which came
upon them out of the bottoms of inevitable hell,
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Were partly vexed with monstrous apparitions, and partly fainted, their heart failing them:
for a sudden fear, and not looked for, came upon them.
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So then whosoever there fell down was straitly kept, shut up in a prison without iron bars,
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For whether he were husbandman, or shepherd, or a labourer in the field, he was overtaken,
and endured that necessity, which could not be avoided: for they were all bound with one chain of
darkness.
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Whether it were a whistling wind, or a melodious noise of birds among the spreading branches,
or a pleasing fall of water running violently,
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Or a terrible sound of stones cast down, or a running that could not be seen of skipping beasts,
or a roaring voice of most savage wild beasts, or a rebounding echo from the hollow mountains;
these things made them to swoon for fear.
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For the whole world shined with clear light, and none were hindered in their labour:
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Over them only was spread an heavy night, an image of that darkness which should afterward
receive them: but yet were they unto themselves more grievous than the darkness.
WISDOM OF SOLOMON 18
Nevertheless thy saints had a very great light, whose voice they hearing, and not seeing their shape,
because they also had not suffered the same things, they counted them happy.
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But for that they did not hurt them now, of whom they had been wronged before, they thanked
them, and besought them pardon for that they had been enemies.
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Instead whereof thou gavest them a burning pillar of fire, both to be a guide of the unknown
journey, and an harmless sun to entertain them honourably.
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For they were worthy to be deprived of light and imprisoned in darkness, who had kept thy
sons shut up, by whom the uncorrupt light of the law was to be given unto the world.
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And when they had determined to slay the babes of the saints, one child being cast forth, and
saved, to reprove them, thou tookest away the multitude of their children, and destroyedst them
altogether in a mighty water.
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Of that night were our fathers certified afore, that assuredly knowing unto what oaths they had
given credence, they might afterwards be of good cheer.
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So of thy people was accepted both the salvation of the righteous, and destruction of the
enemies.
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For wherewith thou didst punish our adversaries, by the same thou didst glorify us, whom thou
hadst called.
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