“Lightning emissions are the thunder of proclamations, or the flashes of miracles, which will go directly: because, according to the privilege of their author, they occur for the benefit of the elect or for the damnation of the reprobate. They will be discharged like from a well-bent bow of clouds, when, by the authori…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on Wisdom, PL 109
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22And hailstones full of wrath shall be cast as out of a stone bow, and the water of the sea shall rage against them, and the floods shall cruelly drown them.
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20His severe wrath shall he sharpen for a sword, and the world shall fight with him against the unwise.
21Then shall the right aiming thunderbolts go abroad; and from the clouds, as from a well drawn bow, shall they fly to the mark.
— Wisdom of Solomon 5:22 —
23Yea, a mighty wind shall stand up against them, and like a storm shall blow them away: thus iniquity shall lay waste the whole earth, and ill dealing shall overthrow the thrones of the mighty.