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Wisdom of Solomon 17:4

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Horror always accompanies darkness, and the less one can see or discern the things around oneself, the greater fear one has, suspecting adversity on all sides and dreading harm. Therefore, it also happened to the Egyptians, when they endured the greatest darkness for three days, which neither the sun, nor the moon, no…
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on Wisdom, PL 109
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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.

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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.

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.

Wisdom of Solomon 17:4

5No power of the fire might give them light: neither could the bright flames of the stars endure to lighten that horrible night.

6Only there appeared unto them a fire kindled of itself, very dreadful: for being much terrified, they thought the things which they saw to be worse than the sight they saw not.

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