“As smoke fails, let them fail: not that they should be reduced to nothing, but that they should rest from their sins. As wax flows away before the face of fire. Just as wax is melted, and does not lose its nature, but grows soft: so let these too not perish, but lay aside their hardness, and thus turn to repentance, a…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Homily 7, on Psalm 67
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2As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
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1Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.
— Psalms 68:2 —
3But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.
4Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him.