“It commemorates historically how the seven nations, which had possessed the land of the Canaanites, were driven out of their places by the Lord because of the infidelity and injustices they had committed, and how the children of Israel, namely the worshippers of His name, were brought into their place. Mystically, how…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on Wisdom, PL 109
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5And also those merciless murderers of children, and devourers of man’s flesh, and the feasts of blood,
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3For it was thy will to destroy by the hands of our fathers both those old inhabitants of thy holy land,
4Whom thou hatedst for doing most odious works of witchcrafts, and wicked sacrifices;
— Wisdom of Solomon 12:5 —
6With their priests out of the midst of their idolatrous crew, and the parents, that killed with their own hands souls destitute of help:
7That the land, which thou esteemedst above all other, might receive a worthy colony of God’s children.