Verse

Wisdom of Solomon 17:18

A church father on this verse
For on every side the wretched were constrained by punishment, for whatever they perceived with their ears from sound, or sensed by any feeling, they feared that all was aimed at their destruction.
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on Wisdom, PL 109
Original

18Whether it were a whistling wind, or a melodious noise of birds among the spreading branches, or a pleasing fall of water running violently,

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In context

16So then whosoever there fell down was straitly kept, shut up in a prison without iron bars,

17For whether he were husbandman, or shepherd, or a labourer in the field, he was overtaken, and endured that necessity, which could not be avoided: for they were all bound with one chain of darkness.

Wisdom of Solomon 17:18

19Or a terrible sound of stones cast down, or a running that could not be seen of skipping beasts, or a roaring voice of most savage wild beasts, or a rebounding echo from the hollow mountains; these things made them to swoon for fear.

20For the whole world shined with clear light, and none were hindered in their labour:

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