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What else is timorousness, but a betrayal of the vantage-ground reason gives us? (Wisdom of Solomon 17, 11)
now monstrous apparitions came indeed to scare them, now it was but their own faint hearts made cowards of them; in a moment dismay was all about them, and took them unawares. (Wisdom of Solomon 17, 14)
Brightest of all, that light shone on thy chosen people. These neighbours of theirs, heard but not seen, the Egyptians must congratulate on their escape from the common doom, (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 1)
To these thou gavest, not darkness, but a pillar of burning fire, to be the guide of their unfamiliar journey, a sun, all gracious welcome, that brought no harm.✻ (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 3)
It was their purpose, besides, to slay all the children born of that holy stock; but one child survived exposure and lived to rebuke them; through him thou didst destroy Egypt’s own children in their thousands, and drown its assembled host in the rushing waves. (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 5)
But music was none in the enemy’s cry that answered them; here all was dirge for children untimely mourned. (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 10)
There was a hush of silence all around, and night had but finished half her swift journey, (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 14)
There was a time, too, when God’s own people tasted the bitterness of death; out there in the desert a plague fell upon the common folk; but not for long this vengeance lasted. (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 20)
Already the corpses were piled thick one on another; but he kept vengeance at bay, standing in between to breach the path between dead and living. (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 23)
Such blazonings he bore; what meant that long robe of his but the whole world’s orbit, the four rows of gems but the great deeds of our first fathers, the mitre on his head but thy own greatness? (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 24)
and quails came up from the sea to content them.Nor were the Egyptians punished without warning; the thunders that terrified them were but echoes of the past. Did not their own wickedness deserve the pains they suffered, (Wisdom of Solomon 19, 12)
a race even more inhospitable than the men of Sodom before them? These did but refuse a welcome when strangers came to their doors; the Egyptians condemned their own guests, their own benefactors, to slavery. (Wisdom of Solomon 19, 13)
