Wisdom 17
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| 1 | For great are thy Iudgements, and cannot be expressed: therefore vnnourtured soules haue erred. |
| 2 | For when vnrighteous men thought to oppresse the holy nation: they being shut vp in their houses, the prisoners of darkenesse, and fettered with the bondes of a long night, lay exiled from the eternall prouidence. |
| 3 | For while they supposed to lie hid in their secret sinnes, they were scattered vnder a darke vaile of forgetfulnesse, being horribly astonished, and troubled with (strange) apparitions. |
| 4 | For neither might the corner that helde them keepe them from feare: but noises (as of waters) falling downe, sounded about them, and sadde visions appeared vnto them with heauie countenances. |
| 5 | No power of the fire might giue them light: neither could the bright flames of the starres endure to lighten that horrible night. |
| 6 | Onely there appeared vnto them a fire kindled of it selfe, very dreadfull: for being much terrified, they thought the things which they saw to be worse then the sight they saw not. |
| 7 | As for the illusions of arte Magicke, they were put downe, and their vaunting in wisedome was reprooued with disgrace. |
| 8 | For they that promised to driue away terrours, and troubles from a sicke soule, were sicke themselues of feare worthy to be laughed at. |
| 9 | For though no terrible thing did feare them: yet being skared with beasts that passed by, and hissing of serpents, |
| 10 | They died for feare, denying that they saw the ayre, which could of no side be auoided. |
| 11 | For wickednesse condemned by her owne witnesse, is very timorous, and being pressed with conscience, alwayes forecasteth grieuous things. |
| 12 | For feare is nothing else, but a betraying of the succours which reason offereth. |
| 13 | And the expectation from within being lesse, counteth the ignorance more then the cause which bringeth the torment. |
| 14 | But they sleeping the same sleepe that night which was indeed intolerable, and which came vpon them out of the bottomes of ineuitable hell: |
| 15 | Were partly vexed with monstrous apparitions, and partly fainted, their heart failing them: for a suddaine feare and not looked for, came vpon them. |
| 16 | So then, whosoeuer there fell downe, was straitly kept, shut vp in a prison without yron barres. |
| 17 | For whether hee were husbandman, or shepheard, or a labourer in the field, he was ouertaken, and endured that necessitie, which could not be auoided: for they were all bound with one chaine of darkenesse. |
| 18 | Whether it were a whistling winde, or a melodious noise of birdes among the spreading branches, or a pleasing fall of water running violently: |
| 19 | Or a terrible sound of stones cast downe, or a running that could not be seene of skipping beasts, or a roaring voice of most sauage wilde beasts, or a rebounding Eccho from the hollow mountaines: these things made them to swoone for feare. |
| 20 | For the whole world shined with cleare light, and none were hindered in their labour. |
| 21 | Ouer them onely was spread an heauie night, an image of that darkenesse which should afterwards receiue them: but yet were they vnto themselues more grieuous then the darkenesse. |
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