“It commemorates the fact that in Egypt the enemies of the people of God suffered in the darkness of gloom, which Scripture reports as so dense that it could be felt; in which, having suffered excessive horror, they were justly punished for their sins and for the dark oblivion. Mystically, all persecutors of the Church…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on Wisdom, PL 109
Original
2For when unrighteous men thought to oppress the holy nation; they being shut up in their houses, the prisoners of darkness, and fettered with the bonds of a long night, lay there exiled from the eternal providence.
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1For great are thy judgments, and cannot be expressed: therefore unnurtured souls have erred.
— Wisdom of Solomon 17:2 —
3For while they supposed to lie hid in their secret sins, they were scattered under a dark veil of forgetfulness, being horribly astonished, and troubled with strange apparitions.
4For neither might the corner that held them keep them from fear: but noises as of waters falling down sounded about them, and sad visions appeared unto them with heavy countenances.