hildren of good men did sacrifice
secretly, and with one consent made a holy law, that the saints
should be like partakers of the same good and evil, the fathers
now singing out the songs of praise.

Wis 18:10
But on the other side there sounded an ill according cry of
the enemies, and a lamentable noise was carried abroad for
children that were bewailed.

Wis 18:11
The master and the servant were punished after one manner;
and like as the king, so suffered the common person.

Wis 18:12
So they all together had innumerable dead with one kind of
death; neither were the living sufficient to bury them: for in
one moment the noblest offspring of them was destroyed.

Wis 18:13
For whereas they would not believe any thing by reason of the
enchantments; upon the destruction of the firstborn, they
acknowledged this people to be the sons of God.

Wis 18:14
For while all things were in quiet silence, and that night
was in the midst of her swift course,

Wis 18:15
Thine Almighty word leaped down from heaven out of thy royal
throne, as a fierce man of war into the midst of a land of
destruction,

Wis 18:16
And brought thine unfeigned commandment as a sharp sword, and
standing up filled all things with death; and it touched the
heaven, but it stood upon the earth.

Wis 18:17
Then suddenly visions of horrible dreams troubled them sore,
and terrors came upon them unlooked for.

Wis 18:18
And one thrown here, and another there, half dead, shewed the
cause of his death.

Wis 18:19
For the dreams that troubled them did foreshew this, lest
they should perish, and not know why they were afflicted.

Wis 18:20
Yea, the tasting of death touched the righteous also, and
there was a destruction of the multitude in the wilderness: but
the wrath endured not long.

Wis 18:21
For then the blameless man made haste, and stood forth to
defend them; and bringing the shield of his proper ministry,
even prayer, and the propitiation of incense, set himself
against the wrath, and so brought the calamity to an end,
declaring that he was thy servant.

Wis 18:22
So he overcame the destroyer, not with strength of body, nor
force of arms, but with a word subdued him that punished,
alleging the oaths and covenants made with the fathers.

Wis 18:23
For when the dead were now fallen down by heaps one upon
another, standing between, he stayed the wrath, and parted the
way to the living.

Wis 18:24
For in the long garment was the w