“It is read in the aforementioned book of Numbers that the murmuring children of Israel, in the thirty-fifth encampment, because of the weariness of the journey and labor, and the lack of food, aroused the anger of the Lord against themselves. Therefore, the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and after many had…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on Wisdom, PL 109
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8And in this thou madest thine enemies confess, that it is thou who deliverest from all evil:
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6But they were troubled for a small season, that they might be admonished, having a sign of salvation, to put them in remembrance of the commandment of thy law.
7For he that turned himself toward it was not saved by the thing that he saw, but by thee, that art the Saviour of all.
— Wisdom of Solomon 16:8 —
9For them the bitings of grasshoppers and flies killed, neither was there found any remedy for their life: for they were worthy to be punished by such.
10But thy sons not the very teeth of venomous dragons overcame: for thy mercy was ever by them, and healed them.