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Existence, for him, only a toy to be played with; our life here, only a market-place, where a man must needs get his living by fair means or foul! (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 12)
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)
Did they hope, under that dark veil of oblivion, to find a cloak for secret sinning? Nay, they were scattered far apart, and in grievous dread of the terrors that came to daunt them. (Wisdom of Solomon 17, 3)
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)
God marks the grateful eye, and remembers it; here is sure support won against peril of falling. (Ecclesiasticus 3, 34)
A thief must blush and do penance, a hypocrite men will mark and avoid; the back-biter earns indignation and enmity and disgrace all at once. (Ecclesiasticus 5, 17)
My son, mark well and learn, take heed and be wise; (Ecclesiasticus 6, 33)
