Wisdom 18:5LXX
Bible Orthodoxe · LXX · Verset 5 sur 25
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"And whereas they thought to kill the babes of the just, one child being cast forth, and saved, to reprove them, thou tookest away a multitude of their children, and destroyedst them all together in a mighty water."
En contexte
3Therefore they received a burning pillar of fire for a guide of the way which they knew not, and thou gavest them a harmless sun of a good entertainment.
4The others indeed were worthy to be deprived of light, and imprisoned in darkness, who kept thy children shut up, by whom the pure light of the law was to be given to the world.
5And whereas they thought to kill the babes of the just, one child being cast forth, and saved, to reprove them, thou tookest away a multitude of their children, and destroyedst them all together in a mighty water.
6For that night was known before by our fathers, that assuredly knowing what oaths they had trusted to, they might be of better courage.
7So thy people received the salvation of the just, and destruction of the unjust.