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• What meant this, but that we must be up before the sun to give thee thanks, seeking thy audience with day’s earliest light? (Wisdom of Solomon 16, 28)

• Fire itself no light could give them, nor star’s clear beam illuminate that hideous night; (Wisdom of Solomon 17, 5)

• 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)

• A fitting punishment it was for the Egyptians, this loss of light; fitting that they should be imprisoned in darkness, who had kept thy own sons in prison; thy own sons, through whom that law, which is light unfailing, was to be given to the world. (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 4)

• how light the toil wisdom claims, the fruits of her how soon enjoyed! (Ecclesiasticus 6, 20)

• The enlightenment which comes with wisdom is true to its name; known to so few, yet where men are acquainted with it, it waits to light them into the presence of God.✻ (Ecclesiasticus 6, 23)

• Woman’s beauty has been the ruin of many ere now, a spark to light the flame of lust. (Ecclesiasticus 9, 9)

• One hour of misery, how it can efface in the memory long years of ease! Only a man’s death-bed brings the full history of his fortunes to light. (Ecclesiasticus 11, 29)

• Nought brighter than the sun, and yet its brightness shall fail; nought darker than the secret designs of flesh and blood, yet all shall be brought to light. (Ecclesiasticus 17, 30)

• Wisdom hidden is wasted, is treasure that never sees the light of day; (Ecclesiasticus 20, 32)

• For the dead that lacks light, for the fool that lacks wit, never cease to mourn; (Ecclesiasticus 22, 10)

• and though it were lightly taken, thou shalt find no excuse in that; plague shall light on all thou hast, in amends for it. (Ecclesiasticus 23, 14)