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The book of Wisdom, also known as the Wisdom of Solomon, is a profound piece of literature that offers profound insights and teachings from a Catholic perspective. Composed around the 1st century BC, this book is considered one of the deutero-canonical books by the Catholic Church, meaning that it is part of the Old Testament but not recognized as scripture by all Christian denominations.
In the book of Wisdom, the author reflects on the nature of wisdom itself and its importance in human life. The central theme revolves around the idea that true wisdom comes from God and that it is a gift to be sought after and cherished. The book emphasizes the importance of living a virtuous life, which is rooted in the fear of the Lord and the pursuit of righteousness. Wisdom is portrayed as a guide and protector, leading individuals toward a life of virtue and away from the dangers of temptation and sin.
Through various stories, parables, and poetic passages, the author of Wisdom offers practical advice on a wide range of topics, including justice, mercy, humility, and the proper use of power. The book also grapples with the problem of evil, acknowledging the existence of suffering in the world but affirming the belief that ultimately, God's justice will prevail and that the righteous will be rewarded while the wicked will face divine punishment.
From a Catholic perspective, the book of Wisdom holds special significance as it foreshadows the coming of Jesus Christ, who is called the "Word of God" and the embodiment of divine wisdom in the New Testament. The book's teachings on justice, mercy, and the pursuit of virtue align with the core teachings of the Catholic Church.
Relevant hashtags: #BookOfWisdom #CatholicWisdom #SeekingWisdom #Virtue #DivineWisdom #FearOfTheLord #CatholicTeachings
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wisdom of Solomon Chapter 1 love uprightness you who are rulers on Earth
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be properly disposed towards the Lord and seek Him in Simplicity of heart for he will be found by those who do not put
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him to the test revealing himself to those who do not mistrust him perverse thoughts however separate people from
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from God and power when put to the test confounds the stupid wisdom will never
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enter the soul of a wrongdoer nor dwell in a body enslaved to sin for the Holy
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Spirit of instruction flees deceitfulness recoils from unintelligent thoughts is thwarted by the onset of
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Vice wisdom is a spirit friendly to humanity though she will not let a blasphemer words go unpunished since God
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observes the very soul and accurately surveys the heart listening to every word for the spirit of the Lord fills
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the world and that which holds everything together knows every word said no one who speaks what is wrong
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will go undetected nor will avenging Justice pass by such a one for the
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schemes of the Godless will be examined and a report of his words will reach the Lord to convict him of his crimes there
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is a jealous ear that overhears everything not even a murmur of complaint escapes it so be beware of
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uttering frivolous complaints restrain your tongue from finding fault even what
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is said in secret has repercussions and a lying mouth deals death to the soul do
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not Court death by the errors of your ways nor invite destruction through the work of your hands for God did not make
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death he takes no pleasure in destroying the living to exist for this he created
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all things the creatures of the world have health in them in them is no fatal poison and Hades has no power over the
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world for uprightness is Immortal but the Godless call for death with deed and
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word counting him friend they wear themselves out for him with him they make a pact worthy as they are to belong
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to him wisdom of Solomon Chapter 2 and this
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is the false argument they use our life is short and dreary there is no remedy
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when our end comes no one is known to have come back from Hades we came into
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being by chance and afterwards shall be as though we had never been the breath in our nostrils is a puff of smoke
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reason a spark from the beating of our hearts extinguish this and the body turns to ashes and the spirit melts away
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like the yielding air in time our name will be forgotten nobody will remember
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what we have done our life will pass away like wisps of cloud dissolving like
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the Mist that the sun's Rays drive away and that its heat dispels for our days are the passing of a shadow our end is
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without return the seal is affixed and nobody comes back come then let us enjoy
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the good things of today let us use created things with the zest of Youth take our fill of the dearest wines and
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perfumes on no account forgo the flowers of spring but Crown ourselves with rose buds before they wither no Meadow
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excluded from our orgy let us leave the signs of our rry everywhere since this
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is our portion this our lot as for the upright man who is poor let us oppress
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him let us not spare the Widow nor respect old age white-haired with many
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years let our might be the yardstick of right since weakness argues its own
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futility let us lay traps for the upright man since he annoys us and opposes our way of life reproaches us
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for our sins against the law and accuses of sins against our upbringing he claims
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to have knowledge of God and calls himself a child of the lord we see him
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as a reproof to our way of thinking the very sight of him weighs our Spirits down for his kind of life is not like
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other people's and his ways are quite different in his opinion we are counterfeit he avoids our ways as he
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would filth he proclaims the final end of the upright as blessed and boasts of having God for his father let us see if
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what he said says is true and test him to see what sort of end he will have for
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if the upright man is God's son God will help him and rescue him from the clutches of his enemies let us test him
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with cruelty and with torture and thus explore this gentleness of his and put his patience to the test let us condemn
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him to a shameful death since God will rescue him or so he claims this is the
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way they reason but they are misled since their malice makes them blind mind
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they do not know the hidden things of God they do not hope for the reward of Holiness they do not believe in a reward
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for blameless souls for God created human beings to be immortal he made them
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as an image of his own nature death came into the world only through the devil's Envy as those who belong to him find to
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cost wisdom of Solomon chapter 3 but the souls of the upright are in the hands of
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God and no torment can touch them to the unenlightened they appeared to die their
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departure was regarded as disaster they're leaving us like Annihilation but they are at peace if as it seemed to us
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they suffered punishment their Hope was rich with immortality slight was their correction
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great will Their Blessings be God was putting them to the test and has proved them worthy to be with him he has tested
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them like gold in a furnace and accepted them as a perfect burnt offering at
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their time of visitation they will shine out as Sparks run through the stubble so
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will they they will judge Nations rule over peoples and the Lord will be their
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king forever those who trust in him will understand the truth those who are faithful will live with him in love for
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grace and mercy await his holy ones and he intervenes on behalf of his chosen
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but the Godless will be duly punished for their reasoning for having neglected the upright and deserted the Lord yes
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wretched are they who scorn wisdom and discipline their hope is void their toil
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unavailing their achievements unprofitable their wives are Reckless their children depraved their
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descendants ACC cursed bless the sterile woman if she be blameless and has not
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known an unlawful bed for she will have fruit at the visitation of souls blessed
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two the unic whose hand commits no crime and who Harbors no resentment against
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the Lord a special favor will be granted to him for his loyalty a most desirable
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portion in the temple of the Lord for the fruit of honest labors is glorious
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and the root of understanding does not Decay but the children of adulterers will not reach maturity The Offspring of
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an unlawful bed will disappear even if they live long they will count for nothing their old age will go go
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unhonored at the last while if they die early they have neither hope nor Comfort on the day of judgment for the end of a
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race of evil doers is
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Harsh wisdom of Solomon Chapter 4 better to have no children yet to have virtue
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since immortality perpetuates its memory for God and human beings both recognize
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it present we imitate it absent we long for it crowned it holds Triumph through
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eternity having striven for untainted prizes and emerged the Victor but The Offspring of the Godless come to nothing
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however prolific sprung from a bastard stock they will never Strike Deep Roots
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never put down firm foundations they may Branch out for a time but on unsteady
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foundations they will be rocked by the wind and uprooted by the force of the storm their branches yet unformed will
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be snapped off their fruit be useless too unright to eat fit for nothing for
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children begotten of unlawful bed witness when put on trial to their parents wickedness the upright though he
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die before his time will find rest Length of days is not what makes age
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honorable nor number of years the true measure of Life understanding this is gray hairs
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untarnished life this is ripe old age having won God's favor he has been loved
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and as he was living among Sinners has been taken away he has been carried off
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so that evil may not warp his understanding or deceitfulness seduce his soul for the fascination of evil
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throws good things into the shade and the Whirlwind of Desire corrupts a simple heart having come to Perfection
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so soon he has lived long his soul being pleasing to the Lord he has hurried away
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from the wickedness around him yet people look on uncomprehending and it does not enter
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their heads that grace and mercy await his chosen ones and that he intervenes on behalf of his holy ones the upright
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who dies condemns the Godless who survive and youth quickly perfected condemns the lengthy old age of the
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wicked these people see the end of the wise without understanding what the Lord has in store or why he has taken such a
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one to safety they look on and sneer but the Lord will laugh at them soon they
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will be corpsed is without honor objects of horror among the Dead Forever for he
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will shatter them and fling them headlong and dumbfounded he will shake them from their foundations they will be
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utterly laid waste a prey to grief and their memory will perish when the count
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of their sins has been drawn up in Terror they will come and their crimes
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confronting them will accuse them
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wisdom of Solomon Chapter 5 then the upright will stand up boldly to face
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those who had oppressed him and had thought so little of his sufferings and seeing him they will be seized with
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terrible fear amazed that he should have been so unexpectedly saved stricken with
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remorse they will say to one another with groans and laboring breath this is the one whom we used to mock making him
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the butt of our insults fools that we were his life we regard it as Madness
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his ending is without honor how has he come to be counted as one of the children of God and to have his lot
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among the holy ones clearly we have strayed from the way of Truth the light
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of justice has not Shone for us the sun has not risen for us we have left no
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path of lawlessness or ruin unexplored we have crossed deserts where there was no tract but the way of the Lord is one
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we have never known what good has arrogance been to to us what has been
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the purpose of our riches and boastfulness all those things have passed like a shadow pass like a
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fleeting rumor like a ship that cuts through heaving waves leaving no Trace
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to show where it has passed no wake from its Keel in the waves or like a bird
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flying through the air leaving no proof of its passing it whips the light air with a stroke of its pinions tears it
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apart in its worring Rush drives its way onward with sweeping wing and afterwards
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no sign is seen of its passage or like an arrow shot at a mark the pierced air
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closing so quickly on itself there is no knowing which way the arrow has passed
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so with us scarcely born we disappear a virtue not a trace have we to show we
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have spent ourselves in our own wickedness for the hope of the Godless is like chaff carried on the wind like
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fine spray driven by the storm it disperses like smoke before the wind
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goes away like the memory of a one-day guest but the upright live forever their
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recompense is with the Lord and the most high takes care of them so they will receive the Glorious crown and the
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diadem of Beauty from the Lord's hand for he will shelter them with his right hand and with his arm he will shield
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them for armor he will take his jealous love he will arm creation to punish his enemies he will put on Justice as a
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breastplate and for helmet where his forthright judgment he will take up Invincible Holiness for Shield of his
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pitiless wrath he will Forge a sword and the universe will march with him to fight The Reckless bolts truly aimed the
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shafts of lightning will leap and from the clouds as from a full drawn bow fly
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to their Mark and the Catapult will hurl hailstones charged with Fury the Waters
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of the sea will rage against them the rivers engulf them Without Pity a mighty
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Gale will rise against them and winnow them like like a hurricane thus wickedness will lay the whole earth
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waste and evildoing bring down the Thrones of the
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mighty wisdom of Solomon Chapter 6 listen then Kings and understand rulers
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of remotest lands take warning hear this you who govern great populations taking
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pride in your hosts of subject Nations for sovereignty is given to you by the Lord and Power by the most high who will
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himself probe your acts and scrutinize your intentions if therefore as Servants of his kingdom you have not ruled justly
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nor observed the law nor followed the will of God he will fall on you swiftly and terribly on the highly placed a
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ruthless judgment Falls the lowly are pardoned out of pity but the mighty will
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be mightily tormented for the Lord of all does not cower before anyone he does
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not stand in awe of greatness since he himself is made small and great and provides for all alike but a
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searching trial awaits those who wield power so monarchs my words are meant for
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you so that you may learn wisdom and not fall into error for those who in Holiness observe holy things will be a
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judged holy and accepting instruction from them will find their defense in them set your heart therefore on what I
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have to say listen with a will and you will be instructed wisdom is is
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brilliant she never Fades by those who love her she is readily seen by those
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who seek her she is readily found she anticipates those who desire her by
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making herself known first whoever gets up early to seek her will have no trouble but will find her sitting at the
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door meditating on her is understanding in its perfect form and anyone keeping
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awake for her will soon be free from care for she herself searches everywhere for those those who are worthy of her
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benevolently appearing to them on their ways anticipating their every thought
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for wisdom begins with a sincere desire for instruction care for instruction means loving her loving her means
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keeping her laws attention to her laws guarantees incorruptibility and incorruptibility brings us near to God
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the desire for wisdom thus leads to sovereignty if then Thrones and scepter Delight you monarchs of the Nations
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honor wisdom so that you may Reign forever what wisdom is and how she was
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born I shall now explain I shall hide no mysteries from you but shall follow her
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Steps From the outset of her origin setting out what we know of her in full light without departing from the truth
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blighting Envy is no companion for me for Envy has nothing in common with
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wisdom in the greatest number of the wise lies the world salvation in a
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sagacious King the stability of a people learn therefore from my words the gain
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will be
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yours wisdom of Solomon Chapter 7 I too am mortal like everyone else a
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descendant of the first man formed from the earth I was modeled in flesh inside a mother's womb where for 10 months in
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blood I acquired substance the result of viral seed and pleasure sleep's
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companion I too when I was born Drew in the common air I fell on the same ground
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that bears us all and crying was the first sound I made like everyone else I
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was nurtured in swaddling clothes with every care no King has known any other
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beginning of existence for there is only one way into life and one way out of it
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and so I prayed and understanding was given me I intreated and the spirit of
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wisdom came to me I esteemed her more than scepter and Thrones compared with
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her I held riches as nothing I reckon no precious stone to be her equal for
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compared with her all gold is a pinch of sand and beside her silver ranks as mud
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I loved her more than health or beauty preferred her to the light since her Radiance never sleeps in her company all
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good things came to me and at her hands incalculable wealth all these delighted
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me since wisdom brings them though I did not then realize that she was their
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mother what I learned diligently I shall pass on liberally I shall not conceal
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how rich she is for she is to human beings an inexhaustible treasure and
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those who acquire this win God's friendship commend it to him by the gifts of instruction may God grant me to
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speak as he would wish and conceive thoughts worthy of the gifts I have received since he is both guide to
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wisdom and direct of sages for we are in his hand yes ourselves and our sayings
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and all intellectual and all practical knowledge he was who gave me sure knowledge of what exists to understand
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the structure of the world and the action of the elements the beginning end and middle of the times the alternation
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of the solstices and the succession of the seasons the cycles of the year and the position of the Stars the natures of
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animals and the instincts of wild beasts the powers of spirits and human mental processes the varieties of plants and
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the medical properties of roots and now I understand everything hidden or
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visible for wisdom the designer of all things has instructed me for within her
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is a spirit intelligent holy unique manifold subtle mobile incisive
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unsullied Lucid invulnerable benevolent shrewd irresistible beneficent friendly
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to human beings Stead fast Dependable unperturbed Almighty all surveying
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penetrating all intelligent pure and most subtle Spirits for wisdom is quicker to move than any motion she is
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so pure she pervades and permeates all things she is a breath of the power of
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God pure emanation of the glory of the almighty so nothing impure can find its
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way into her for she is a reflection of the Eternal Light untarnished mirror of
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God 's active power and image of his goodness although she is alone she can
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do everything herself unchanging she renews the world and generation after
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generation passing into holy souls she makes them into God's friends and Prophets for God loves only those who
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dwell with wisdom she is indeed more Splendid than the sun she outshines all
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the constellations compared with light she takes first place for light must yield
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to night but against wisdom evil cannot
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Prevail wisdom of Solomon chapter 8 strongly she reaches from one end of the
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world to the other and she governs the whole world for its good wisdom I loved and searched for from my youth I
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resolved to have her as my bride I fell in love with her beauty she enhances her
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Noble Birth by sharing God's life for the master of all has always loved her
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indeed she shares the secrets of God's knowledge and she chooses what he will
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do if in this life wealth is a desirable possession what is more wealthy than
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wisdom whose work is everywhere or if it be the intellect that is at work who
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more than she designs whatever exists or if it be uprightness you love why
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virtues are the fruit of her labors since it is she who teaches Temperance and Prudence Justice and fortitude
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Nothing in life is more useful for human beings or if you are eager for wide experience she knows the past she
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forecasts the future she knows how to turn maxims and solve riddles she has
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forn knowledge of signs and wonders and of the unfolding of the ages and the times I therefore determined to take her
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to share my life knowing that she would be my counselor in prosperity and comfort me in cares and sorrow thanks to
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her I shall be admired ired by the masses and honored though young by the
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elders I shall be reckoned shrewed as a judge and the great will be amazed at me
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they will wait on my silences and pay attention when I speak if I speak at
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some length they will lay their hand on their lips by means of her immortality
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will be mine I shall leave an everlasting memory to my successors I
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shall govern peoples and Nations will be subject to me at the sound of my name fearsome despots will be afraid I shall
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show myself kind to the people and Valiant in battle when I go home I shall take my ease with her for nothing is
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bitter in her company when life is shared with her there is no pain nothing but pleasure and joy having meditated on
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all this and having come to the conclusion that immortality resides in kinship with wisdom Noble contentment in
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her friendship inexhaustible riches in her activities understanding in cultivating her society and Renown in
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conversing with her I went all ways seeking how to get her I was a boy of
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happy disposition I had received a good Soul as my lot or rather being good I
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had entered an undefiled body but realizing that I could never possess wisdom unless God gave her to me a sign
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of intelligence in itself to know in whose gift she lay I prayed to the Lord and intreated him and with all my heart
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I said
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wisdom of Solomon Chapter n God of our ancestors Lord of Mercy who by Your Word
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have made the universe and in your wisdom have fitted human beings to rule the creatures that you have made to
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govern the world in Holiness and saving Justice and in honesty of soul to dispense Fair judgment grant me wisdom
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consor of your throne and do not reject me from the number of your children for I am your servant son of your serving
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maid a feeble man with little time to live with small understanding of justice
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and the laws indeed were anyone perfect among the sons of men if he lacked the
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wisdom that comes from you he would still count for nothing you have chosen me to be king over your people to be
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judge of your sons and daughters you have bidden me build a temple on your Holy Mountain and an altar in the city
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where you have pitched your tent a copy of the Holy tent which you prepared at the beginning with you is wisdom she who
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knows your Works she who was present when you made the world she understands what is pleasing in your eyes and what
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agrees with your Commandments dispatch her from the holy Heavens send her forth
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from your throne of Glory to help me and to toil with me and teach me what is pleasing to you since she knows and
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understands everything she will guide me prudently in my actions and will protect me with her glory then all I do will be
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acceptable I shall govern your people justly and be worthy of my father's Throne what human being indeed can know
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the intentions of God and who can comprehend the will of the Lord for the
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reasoning of Mortals is inadequate our attitudes of Mind unstable for a
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perishable body presses down the soul and this tent of clay weighs down the mind with its many cares it is hard
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enough for us to work out what is on Earth laborious to know what lies within our reach who then then can discover
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what is in the heavens and who could ever have known your will had you not given wisdom and sent your Holy Spirit
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from above thus have the paths of those on earth been straightened and people have been taught what pleases you and
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have been saved by
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wisdom wisdom of Solomon chapter 10 it was wisdom who protected the first man
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to be fashioned the father of the world who had been created all alone she it
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was who rescued him from his fall and gave him the strength to subjugate all things but when in his wrath a wicked
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man deserted her he perished in his fratricidal Fury when because of him the
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Earth was drowned it was wisdom again who saved it piloting the upright man on
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valueless Timber again when concurring in wickedness the Nations had been
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thrown into confusion she singled out the upright man preserved him blameless
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before God and fortified him against pity for his child she it was who while the Godless perished saved the upright
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man as he fled from the fire raining down on the five cities in witness against whose evil ways a desolate land
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still smokes where plants bear fruit that never ripens and wear Monument to
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an unbelieving Soul there stands a pillar of salt for By ignoring the path of wisdom not only did they suffer the
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loss of not knowing the good but they left the the world a memorial to their Folly so that their offenses could not
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pass unnoticed but wisdom delivered her servants from their ordeals the upright
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man fleeing from the anger of his brother was led by her along straight
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paths she showed him the kingdom of God and taught him the knowledge of holy things she brought him success in his
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labors and gave him full return for all his efforts she stood by him against grasping and oppressive men and she made
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him Rich she Pres preserved him from his enemies and saved him from the traps they set for him in an arduous struggle
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she awarded him the prize to teach him that piety is stronger than all she did
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not forsake the upright man when he was sold but snatched him away from sin she
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accompanied him down into the pit nor did she abandon him in his chains until she had brought him the scepter of a
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kingdom and authority over his despotic Masters thus exposing his Liars those who introduced him and giving him honor
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Everlasting it was wisdom who delivered a holy people a blameless race from a nation of
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oppressors she entered the soul of a servant of the Lord and withstood fearsome Kings with wonders and signs to
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the holy people she gave the wages of their labors she guided them by a marvelous Road herself their Shelter by
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day and their Starlight through the night she brought them across the Red Sea leading them through an immensity of
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water whereas she drowned their enemies enemies then spat them out from the depths of the Abyss so the upright
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despoiled the Godless Lord they extoled your holy name and with one Accord
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praised your protecting hand for wisdom opened the mouths of the dumb and made eloquent the tongues of
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babes wisdom of Solomon Chapter 11 she made their actions Successful by means
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of a holy prophet they journeyed through an unpeopled desert and pitched their tents in inaccessible places they stood
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firm against their enemies fought off their foes on you they called when they
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were thirsty and from the rocky Cliff water was given them from hard Stone a
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remedy for their thirst thus what had served to punish their enemies became a
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benefit for them in their difficulties whereas their enemies had only the ever flowing source of a river fouled with
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mingled blood and mud to punish them for their decree of infanticide you gave
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your people against all hope water and abundance once you had shown by The
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Thirst that they were experiencing how severely you were punishing their enemies from their own ordeals which
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were only loving correction they realized how an angry sentence was tormenting the Godless for you had
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tested your own as a father admonishes but the others you had punished as a pitiless king condemns and whether far
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or near they were equally afflicted for for a double sorrow seized on them and a
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groaning at the memory of the past when they learned that the punishments they were receiving were beneficial to the
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others they realized it was the Lord while for the man whom long before they had exposed and later mockingly rebuffed
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they felt only admiration when all was done having suffered a thirst so different from that of the upright for
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their foolish and wicked Notions which led them astray into worshiping mindless reptiles and contemptible Beatles you s
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a horde of mindless animals to punish them and to teach them that the agent of sin is the agent of punishment and
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indeed your all powerful hand which created the world from formless matter did not lack means to unleash a horde of
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bears or Savage Lions on them or unknown beasts newly created full of Rage
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breathing out fire or puffing out stinking smoke or flashing fearful Sparks from their eyes beasts able not
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only to destroy them being so Savage but even to strike them dead by their terrifying appearance however ever
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without these one breath could have blown them over pursued by Justice
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Whirled Away by the breath of your power you however ordered all things by
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measure number and weight for your great power is always at your service and who
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can withstand the might of your arm the whole world for you can no more than tip
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a balance like a drop of mour due falling on the ground yet you are merciful to all because you are Almighty
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you overlook people's sins so that they can repent yes you love everything that
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exists and nothing that you have made disgust you since if you had hated something you would not have made it and
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how could a thing subsist had you not willed it or how be preserved if not
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called forth by you no you spare all since all is yours Lord lover of life
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imperishable spirit is in everything and thus gradually you correct those who
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offend you admonish and remind them of how they have sinned so that they may abstain from Evil and trust in you Lord
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the ancient inhabitants of your Holy Land you hated for their loathsome practices their acts of sorcery and
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Unholy rights those ruthless murderers of children those Eaters of ventrals at
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feasts of human flesh and of blood those initiates of secret brotherhoods those murderous parents of defenseless beings
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you determined to destroy at our ancestors hands so that this land dearer to you than any other might receive a
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worthy colony of God's children even so since these were human you treated them
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leniently sending Hornets as forerunners of your army to exterminate them little
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by little not that you were unable to hand the Godless over to to the upright in pitched battle or destroy them at
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once by Savage beasts or one harsh word but by carrying out your sentences gradually you gave them a chance to
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repent although you knew that they were inherently evil innately Wicked and fixed in their cast of mind for they
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were a race ACC cursed from the beginning nor was it from awe of anyone that you let their sins go unpunished
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for who is there to ask what have you done or who is there to disagree with
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your sentence who to arraign you for destroying Nations which you have created who to confront you by
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championing the wicked for there is no God other than you who cares for
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everyone to whom you have to prove that your sentences have been just no more
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could any king or desperate challenge you over Those whom you have punished for being upright yourself you rule the
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universe uprightly and hold it as incompatible with your power to condemn anyone who has not deserved to be
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punished for your strength is the basis of your saving Justice and your sovereignty over all makes you lenient
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to all you show your strength when people will not believe in your absolute power and you confound any insolence in
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those who do know it but you controlling your strength are mild in judgment and
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govern us with great lenience for you have only to Will and your power is there by acting thus you have taught
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your people that the upright must be kindly to his fellows and you have given your children the good hope that after
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sins you will grant repentance for if with such care and Indulgence you have punished your children's enemies though
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doomed to death and have given them time and place to be rid of their wickedness with what exact attention have you not
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judged your children to whose ancestors by Oaths and Covenants you made such
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generous promises thus you instruct us when you punish our enemies in moderation that we should reflect on
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your kindness when we judge and when we are judged we should look for mercy and
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this is why people leading foolish and wicked lives were tortured by you with their own Abominations for they had
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strayed too far on the paths of error by taking the vest and most despicable of animals for Gods being diluted like
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silly little children so as to children with no sense you gave them a sentence
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making fools of them those however who would not take warning from a mocking reproof were soon to endure a sentence
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worthy of God the creatures that made them suffer and against which they protested those very creatures that they
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had taken for gods and by which they were punished they saw in their true light and he whom hitherto they had
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refused to know they realized was true God and this is why the final
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condemnation fell on
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them wisdom of Solomon Chapter 13 yes
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naturally stupid are all who are unaware of God and who from good things seen
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have not been able to discover him who is or by studying The Works have not recognized the artificer fire however or
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wind or the Swift air the sphere of the Stars impetuous water Heaven's lamps are
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what they have held to be the gods who govern the world if Charmed by their beauty they have taken these for Gods
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let them know how much the master of these excels them since he was the very source of beauty
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that created them and if they have been impressed by their power and energy let them deduce from these how much mightier
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is he that has formed them since through the Grandeur and beauty of the creatures we may by analogy contemplate their
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author small blame however attaches to them for perhaps they go astray only in
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their search for God and their eagerness to find him familiar with his Works they investigate them and fall victim to
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appearances seeing so much Beauty but even so they have no excuse if they are
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capable of acquiring enough knowledge to be able to investigate the world how have they been so slow to find its
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Master but wretched are they with their hope set on dead things who have given
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the title of gods to human artifacts gold or silver skillfully worked figures
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of animals or useless Stone carved by some hand long ago take a wood cutter he
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Fells a suitable tree neatly strips off the bark all over and then with admirable skill works the wood into an
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object useful in daily life the bits left over from his work he uses for cooking his food then eats his fill
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there is still a good for nothing bit left over a gnarled and nodded Billet he takes it and whittles it with a
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concentration of his Leisure Hours he shapes it with a skill of experience he gives it a human shape or perhaps he
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makes it into some vile animal smears it with ochre paints its surface red coats
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over all its blemishes he next makes a worthy home for it lets it into the wall
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fixes it with an iron clamp thus he makes sure that it will not fall down
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being well aware that it cannot help itself since it is only an image and needs to be helped and yet if he wishes
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to pray for his goods for his marriage for his children he does not blush to Harang this lifeless thing for health he
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invokes what is weak for life he pleads with what is dead for help he goes
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begging to Total inexperience for a journey what cannot even use its feet
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for profit and undertaking and success in pursuing his craft he asks skill from
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something whose hands have no skill [Music]
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whatever wisdom of Solomon Chapter 14 or someone else taking ship to cross the
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Wild Waves loudly invokes a piece of wood frer than the vessel that bears him
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agreed the ship is the product of a craving for gain its building embodies the wisdom of the ship right but your
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Providence father is what steers it you having opened a pathway even through the sea and a safe way over the waves
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showing that you can save whatever happens so that even without experience
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someone may put to see it is not your will that the works of your wisdom should be sterile so people entrust
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their lives to the smallest piece of wood crossed the waves on a raft yet are kept safe and sound why in the beginning
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when the proud Giants were perishing the hope of the world took refuge on a raft and steered by your hand preserved the
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seed of a new generation for the ages to come for blessed is the wood which serves the cause of uprightness but a
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cursed the man-made Idol yes it and its maker he for having made it and it
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because though perishable it has been called God for god holds the Godless and
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his godlessness in equal hatred both work and workmen will alike be punished
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hence even the idols of the Nations will have a visitation since in God's creation they have become an Abomination
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a scandal for human Souls a snare for the feet of the foolish the idea of
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making Idols was the origin of fornication their Discovery corrupted life they did not exist at the beginning
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they will not exist for forever human vanity brought them into the world and a quick end is therefore reserved for them
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a father afflicted by untimely Morning has an image made of his child so soon carried off and now pays Divine honors
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to what yesterday was only a corpse handing on Mysteries and ceremonies to his people time passes the custom
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hardens and is observed as law rulers were the ones who ordered that statues should be worshiped people who could not
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honor them in person because they live too far away would have a portrait made of their distant countenance to have an
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image that they could see of the king whom they honored meaning by such Zeal to flatter the absent as if he were
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present even people who did not know him were stimulated into spreading his cult by the artists enthusiasm for the latter
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doubtless wishing to please his ruler exerted all his skill to surpass the reality and the crowd attracted by the
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beauty of the work mistook for a God someone whom recently they had honored as a man and this became a snare for
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life that people whether enslaved by Misfortune or by tyranny should have
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conferred the ineffable name on sticks and stones it is not enough however for
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them to have such misconceptions about God for living in the fierce Warfare of
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ignorance they call these terrible evils peace with their child murdering rights
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their occult Mysteries or their frenzied orgies with outlandish Customs they no
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longer retain any Purity in their lives or their marriages one treacherously murdering another or wronging him by
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adultery everywhere a Welter of blood and murder theft and fraud corruption
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treachery Riot perjury disturbance of decent people forgetfulness of favors
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pollution of souls sins against nature disorder in marriage adultery and
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debauchery for the worship of Idols with no name is the beginning cause and end
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of every evil for these people either carry their merrymaking to the point of frenzy or they prophesy what is not true
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or they live Wicked lives or they purger themselves without hesitation since they
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put their trust in lifeless Idols they do not reckon their false Oaths can harm them but they will be justly punished
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for this double crime for degrading the concept of God by adhering to idols and
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for wickedly perjuring themselves in contempt for what is Holy for it is not the power of the things by which they
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swear but the punishment reserved for Sinners that always follows the offenses of wicked
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people wisdom of Solomon chapter 15 but you our God are kind and true slow to
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anger governing the universe with Mercy even if we sin we are yours since we
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acknowledge your power but we will not sin knowing we count as yours to know
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you is indeed the perfect virtue and to know your power is the root of immortality we have not been duped by
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inventions of misapplied human skill or by the sterile work of painters by
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figures doed with assorted colors the sight of which sets fools yearning and hankering for the lifeless form of an
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unbreathing image lovers of evil and worthy of such hopes are those who make them those who want them and those who
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worship them take a Potter now laboriously working the s Earth shaping
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each object for us to use out of the selfsame clay he models vessels intended
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for a noble use and those for a contrary purpose all alike but which of these two
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uses each will have is for the Potter himself to decide then ill spent effort
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from the same clay he models a feudal God although so recently made out of Earth himself and shortly to return to
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what he was taken from when asked to give back the soul that has been lent to him even so he does not worry about
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having to die or about the shortness of his life but strives to outdo the gold Smiths and silver Smiths imitates the
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bronze workers and Prides himself on modeling counterfeits ashes his heart
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more vile than Earth his hope more wretched than clay his life for he has
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misconceived the one who has modeled him who breathed an active Soul into him and inspired a Living spirit what is more he
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looks on the life of ours is a kind of game and our time here like a fair full of Bargains however foul the means he
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says a man must make a living He more than any other knows he is sinning he
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who from one earthy stuff makes both brittle pots and Idols but most foolish
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more pitiable even than the soul of a little child are the enemies who once played the Tyrant with your people and
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have taken all the idols of the Heathen for Gods these can use neither their eyes for seeing nor their nostrils for
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breathing the air nor their ears for hearing nor the fingers on their hands for handling nor their feet for walking
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they have been made you see by a human being modeled by a being whose own breath is borrowed no man can Model A
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God to resemble himself subject to death his impious hands can produce only
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something dead he himself is worthier than the things he worships he will at
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least have lived but never they and they worship even the most loathesome of animals worse than the rest in their
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degree of stupidity without a trace of beauty if that is what is attractive in animals and excluded from God's praises
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and
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blessing wisdom of Solomon chapter 16 thus they were appropriately punished by
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similar creatures and tormented by swarms of vermin in contrast to this punishment you did your people a
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kindness and to satisfy their sharp appetite provided quailes a luscious
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Rarity for them to eat thus the Egyptians at the repulsive side of the creature sent against them were to find
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that though they long for food they had lost their natural appetite whereas your
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own people after short privation were to have a rare relish for their portion
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inevitable that Relentless want should seize on the former oppressors enough for your people to be shown how their
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enemies were being tortured even when the fearful Rage of wild animals overtook them and they were perishing
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from the bites of writhing snakes your retribution did not continue to the end
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Affliction struck them briefly by way of warning and they had a saving token to remind them of the Commandment of your
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law for whoever turned to it was saved not by what he looked at but by you the
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savior of all and by such means you prove to our enemies that you are the one who delivers from every evil for
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them the bites of locusts and flies proved fatal and no remedy could be found to save their lives since they
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deserve to be punished by such creatures but your children not even the fangs of
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poisonous snakes could bring them down for your mercy came to their help and cured them one sting how quickly healed
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to remind them of your pronouncements rather than that by sinking into deep forgetfulness they should be cut off
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from your kindness no herb no PST has cured them but your all healing word
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Lord yes you are the one with power over life and death bringing to the gates of
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Hades and Back Again a human being out of malice may put to death but cannot
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bring the Departed Spirit back or free the soul that Hades has once received it is not possible to escape your hand the
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Godless who refus to acknowledge you were scourged by the strength of your arm pursued by No Ordinary Reigns hail
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and unre lenting downpours and consumed by fire even more wonderful in the water
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which quenches all the fire raged fiercer than ever for the elements fight
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for the upright at one moment the fire would die down to avoid consuming the
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animal sent against the Godless and to make clear to them by that sight that the sentence of God was pursuing them at
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another in the very heart of the water it would burn more fiercely than fire to ruin the produce of a wicked land and
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how differently with your people you gave them the food of angels from Heaven
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untiringly providing them bread already prepared containing every Delight to
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satisfy every taste and the substance you gave showed your sweetness towards your children for conforming to the
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taste of whoever ate it it transformed itself into what each eater wished snow
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and ice endured the fire without melting this was to show them that to destroy the harvests of their enemies
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fire would burn even in hail and flare in Falling Rain whereas on the other hand it would even forget its own
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strength in the service of feeding the upright for the creation being at the service of you its creator taught us to
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punish the wicked and slackens for the benefit of those who trust in you and this is why by changing into all things
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it obediently served your all nourishing Bounty conforming to the wishes of those who were in need so that your beloved
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children Lord might learn that the various crops are not what provide nourishment but your
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word which preserves all who believe in you for that which fire could not destroy melted In the Heat of a single
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fleeting Sunbeam to show that to give you thanks we must rise before the sun
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and meet you at the dawning of the day whereas the hope of The Ungrateful melts like winter frost and flows away like
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water running to
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waste wisdom of Solomon chapter 17 yes your judgments are great and
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impenetrable which is why uninstructed Souls have gone astray while the wicked
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supposed they had a holy nation in their power they themselves lay prisoners of the dark in the feds of long night
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confined under their own roofs banished from Eternal Providence while they thought to remain unnoticed with their
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secret sins curtained by dark forgetfulness they were scattered in fearful dismay terrified by apparitions
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The Hiding Place Sheltering them could not ward off their fear terrifying noises echoed round them and gloomy
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grim-faced specters haunted them no fire had power enough to give them light nor
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could the brightly blazing stars illuminate that Dreadful night the only light for them was a great spontaneous
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blaze a fearful sight to see and in their Terror once that sight had
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vanished they thought what they had seen more terrible than ever their magical Illusions were powerless now and their
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claims to intelligence were ignominiously confounded for those who promised to drive out fears and
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disorders from sick Souls were now themselves sick with ludicrous fright even when there was nothing frightful to
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scare them the Vermin creeping past and the hissing of reptiles filled them with panic they died convulsed with fright
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refusing even to look at empty air which cannot be eluded anyhow wickedness is
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confessedly very cowardly and it condemns itself under pressure from conscience it always assumes the worst
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fear indeed is nothing other than the failure of the help offered by reason
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the less you rely within yourself on this the more alarming it is not to know the cause of your suffering and they all
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locked in the same sleep while that Darkness lasted which was in fact quite powerless and it issued from the depths
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of equally powerless Haiti were now chased by monstrous specters now Paralyzed by the fainting of their souls
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for a sudden unexpected Terror had attacked them and thus whoever it might
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be that fell their stayed clamped to the spot in this prison without bars whether he was Plowman or Shepherd or somebody
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at work in the desert he was still overtaken and suffered the inevitable fate for all had been bound by the one
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same chain of Darkness the suffing of the wind the tuneful noise of birds and
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the spreading branches the measured beat of water in its powerful course the headlong D of rocks cascading down the
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Unseen course of bounding animals The Roaring of the most Savage of wild beasts the echo rebounding from the
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cliffs in the mountains all held them paralyzed with fear for the whole world Shone with the light of day and
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unhindered went about its work over them alone there spread a heavy Darkness
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image of the dark that would receive them but heavier than the darkness was the burden they were to
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themselves wisdom of Solomon chapter 18 for your holy ones however there was a
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very great light the Egyptians who could hear them but not see them called them fortunate because they had not suffered
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too they thanked them for doing no injury in return for previous wrongs and asked forgiveness for their past ill
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will in contrast to the darkness you gave your people people a pillar of blazing fire to guide them on their
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unknown Journey a mild Sun for their ambitious migration but well those
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others deserve to be deprived of light and imprisoned in darkness for they had kept in captivity your children by whom
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The Incorruptible light of the law was to be given to the world as they had resolved to kill the infants of the Holy
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ones and as of those exposed only one child have been saved you punish them by
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carrying off their horde of children and by destroying them all in the Wild Water that night had been known in advance to
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our ancestors so that well knowing him in whom they had put their trust they
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would be sure of his promises your people thus were waiting both for the rescue of the upright and for the ruin
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of the enemy for by the very Vengeance that you exacted on our adversaries you
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glorified Us by calling us to you so the holy Children of the good offered sacrifice in secret and with one Accord
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enacted this holy law that the Holy One should share good things and dangers alike and forth with they chanted the
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hymns of the ancestors in Echo came the discordant cries of their enemies and
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the pitiful whales of people mourning for their children could be heard from far away one and the same punishment had
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struck slave and master alike and now commoner and King had the same sufferings to endure struck by the same
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death all had innumerable dead there were not enough living left to bury them
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for at one stroke the flower of their offspring had perished those whose
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spells had made them completely incredulous when faced with the destruction of their first born
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acknowledged this people to be child of God when peaceful silence lay over all
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and night had run the half of her Swift course down from the heavens from the Royal Throne leapt your all powerful
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word Like a pitiless Warrior Into the Heart of a land doomed to destruction carrying your unambiguous command like a
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sharp sword it stood and filled the universe with death though standing on
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the earth it touched the sky immediately dreams and gruesome Visions overwhelmed
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them with Terror unexpected fears assailed them hurled down some here some
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there half dead they were able to say why they were dying for the dreams that had troubled them had warned them why
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beforehand so that they should not perish without knowing why they were being Afflicted experience of death
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however touched the upright too and a great many were struck down in the desert but the retribution did not last
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long for a blameless man hurried to their defense wielding the weapons of
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his sacred office prayer and expiating incense he confronted retribution and
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put an end to the plague thus showing that he was your servant he overcame hostility not by physical strength nor
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by Force of Arms but by word he prevailed Over The Punisher by recalling
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the Oaths made to the fathers and the covenants already the corpses lay piled
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in heaps when he interposed and beat retribution back and cut off its approach to the living for the whole
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world was on his flowing robe the Glorious names of the fathers engraved on the four rows of stones and your
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majesty on the diadem on his head from these the Destroyer recoiled he was
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afraid of these this one experience of Retribution was enough
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wisdom of Solomon Chapter 19 but the Godless were assailed by merciless anger
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to the very end for he knew beforehand what they would do how after letting his
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people leave and hastening their departure they would change their minds and give Chase they were actually still
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conducting their morning rights and lamenting at the tombs of their dead when another mad scheme came into their
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heads and they set out to pursue as though runaways the people whom they had expelled and begged to go a
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well-deserved fate urged them to this extreme and made them forget what had already happened so that they would add
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to their torments the one punishment outstanding and while your people were experiencing a journey contrary to all
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expectations would themselves meet an extraordinary death for the whole creation submissive to your commands had
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its very nature recreated so that your children should be preserved from harm
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overshadowing the camp there was the cloud where there had been water dry land was seen to rise the Red Sea became
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an unimpeded way the tempestuous waves a green plane sheltered by your hand the
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whole nation passed across gazing at these amazing prodigies they were like
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horses at pasture they skipped like Lambs singing your Praises Lord their
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deliverer for they still remembered the events of their Exile how the land had bred mosquitoes instead of animals and
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the river had disc scourged millions of frogs instead of fish later they were to see a new way for birds to come into
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being when goated by greed they demanded something tasty and quailes came up out
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of the sea to satisfy them on the Sinners however punishments rained down not without violent Thunder as early
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warning and they suffered what their own crimes had justly deserved since they had shown such bitter hatred to
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foreigners others indeed had failed to welcome strangers who came to them but
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the Egyptians had enslaved their own guests and benefactors the Sinners moreover will certainly be punished for
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it since they gave the foreigners a hostile welcome but the latter having given a festive reception to people who
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already shared the same rights as themselves later overwhelmed them with terrible labors hence they were struck
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with blindness like the Sinners at the Gate of the upright when yawning Darkness all around them each each had
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to grope his way through his own door a new attuning of the elements occurred as on a harp the notes may change their
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Rhythm though all the while preserving the same tone and this is just what happened land animals became aquatic
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swimming ones took to the land fire reinforced its strength in water and water forgot the power of extinguishing
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it flames on the other hand did not Char the Flesh of delicate animals that ventured into them nor did they melt the
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Heavenly food resembling ice and is easily melted yes Lord in every way you
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have made your people great and glorious you have never failed to help them at any time or place
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