Fondare 162 Risultati per: Darkness
light must still alternate with darkness, but where is the conspiracy can pull down wisdom from her throne? (Wisdom of Solomon 7, 30)
They had thought to exercise barbarous tyranny over a nation consecrated to thee. And now they lay, shut close under their own roofs, darkness their dungeon, their sentence a long-drawn night, exiled from the gifts of thy eternal Providence. (Wisdom of Solomon 17, 2)
Whether the darkness that held them bound were true night, or that darkness which comes up from the lowest depths of the grave, their bemused senses could not well distinguish;✻ (Wisdom of Solomon 17, 13)
by darkness, like all his fellows, held in thrall. Did the wind whistle, or bird utter tuneful notes deep amid the boughs; were it the dull roar of some waterfall, (Wisdom of Solomon 17, 17)
over them alone this heavy curtain of night was spread, image of the darkness that should be their next abode. Yet each man had a burden heavier to bear than darkness itself, the burden of his own companionship. (Wisdom of Solomon 17, 20)
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)
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)
No wonder blindness fell on them, as upon the men of Sodom at Lot’s door! But in Egypt the darkness was so bewildering that a man could not find his way through the doors of his own house. (Wisdom of Solomon 19, 16)
Error and darkness are sinful man’s birthright; it is by making evil their delight that men grow hardened in evil. (Ecclesiasticus 11, 16)
How smoothly paved is the path of sinners! Yet death lies at the end of it, and darkness, and doom. (Ecclesiasticus 21, 11)
darkness all about, and walls to shelter me, and none watching; what have I to fear? Sins like mine the most High will never mark. (Ecclesiasticus 23, 26)
some soul well matched with thine, such as would grieve to see thee stumbling in darkness. (Ecclesiasticus 37, 16)
