Wisdom of Solomon 18:22
“For we accuse you of nothing except the crime of schism, which by persisting wrongly you have also made into heresy. But how greatly this crime is weighed by divine judgment, read what I do not doubt you have read. You will find Dathan and Abiram swallowed up by the opening of the earth, and all the others who agreed…”
22So he overcame the destroyer, not with strength of body, nor force of arms, but with a word subdued him that punished, alleging the oaths and covenants made with the fathers.
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20Yea, the tasting of death touched the righteous also, and there was a destruction of the multitude in the wilderness: but the wrath endured not long.
21For then the blameless man made haste, and stood forth to defend them; and bringing the shield of his proper ministry, even prayer, and the propitiation of incense, set himself against the wrath, and so brought the calamity to an end, declaring that he was thy servant.
— Wisdom of Solomon 18:22 —
23For when the dead were now fallen down by heaps one upon another, standing between, he stayed the wrath, and parted the way to the living.
24For in the long garment was the whole world, and in the four rows of the stones was the glory of the fathers graven, and thy Majesty upon the diadem of his head.