“For the saints of God there was the greatest light, when they were illuminated both outwardly by bodily light and inwardly by spiritual radiance; for the faith of God and the purity of conscience enlightened them within, whose voices the enemies heard, but whose appearance they did not see, because darkness blinded th…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on Wisdom, PL 109
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2But for that they did not hurt them now, of whom they had been wronged before, they thanked them, and besought them pardon for that they had been enemies.
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1Nevertheless thy saints had a very great light, whose voice they hearing, and not seeing their shape, because they also had not suffered the same things, they counted them happy.
— Wisdom of Solomon 18:2 —
3Instead whereof thou gavest them a burning pillar of fire, both to be a guide of the unknown journey, and an harmless sun to entertain them honourably.
4For they were worthy to be deprived of light and imprisoned in darkness, who had kept thy sons shut up, by whom the uncorrupt light of the law was to be given unto the world.