“He commemorates the blessings of God, which were bestowed upon the former people through divine mercy, when, as they thirsted, He brought forth water from the rock and refreshed them with abundant drink. Likewise, on the contrary, he recounts the punishments which their enemies suffered in the slaughter of their first…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on Wisdom, PL 109
Original
8Declaring by that thirst then how thou hadst punished their adversaries.
Modern
Preparing…
Teens
Preparing…
Kids
Preparing…
In context
6For instead of a perpetual running river troubled with foul blood,
7For a manifest reproof of that commandment, whereby the infants were slain, thou gavest unto them abundance of water by a means which they hoped not for:
— Wisdom of Solomon 11:8 —
9For when they were tried albeit but in mercy chastised, they knew how the ungodly were judged in wrath and tormented, thirsting in another manner than the just.
10For these thou didst admonish and try, as a father: but the other, as a severe king, thou didst condemn and punish.