“What is said, that both the absent and the present were similarly tormented, either signifies according to history that not only those Egyptians who were present with Pharaoh before Moses and Aaron were struck by the ten plagues, but also all the others who dwelled throughout the land of Egypt were similarly punished;…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on Wisdom, PL 109
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12For a double grief came upon them, and a groaning for the remembrance of things past.
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10For these thou didst admonish and try, as a father: but the other, as a severe king, thou didst condemn and punish.
11Whether they were absent or present, they were vexed alike.
— Wisdom of Solomon 11:12 —
13For when they heard by their own punishments the other to be benefited, they had some feeling of the Lord.
14For whom they respected with scorn, when he was long before thrown out at the casting forth of the infants, him in the end, when they saw what came to pass, they admired.