“For if those who harshly and mercilessly treated the ancient servants of God, who came to them out of profane necessity, received fitting punishments, so that, darkened in mind and hardened in feeling, they endured the obscurity of darkness and various idols in bodily sense, how much more will those who dishonorably r…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on Wisdom, PL 109
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13And punishments came upon the sinners not without former signs by the force of thunders: for they suffered justly according to their own wickedness, insomuch as they used a more hard and hateful behaviour toward strangers.
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11But afterwards they saw a new generation of fowls, when, being led with their appetite, they asked delicate meats.
12For quails came up unto them from the sea for their contentment.
— Wisdom of Solomon 19:13 —
14For the Sodomites did not receive those, whom they knew not when they came: but these brought friends into bondage, that had well deserved of them.
15And not only so, but peradventure some respect shall be had of those, because they used strangers not friendly: