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For by the same means by which you punished our enemies you called us to yourself and glorified us.
9
For in secret the holy children of good people offered sacrifices, and with one accord agreed to the divine law, so that the saints would share alike the same things, both blessings and dangers; and already they were singing the praises of the ancestors.
10
But the discordant cry of their enemies echoed back, and their piteous lament for their children was spread abroad.
11
The slave was punished with the same penalty as the master, and the commoner suffered the same loss as the king;
12
and they all together, by the one form of death, had corpses too many to count. For the living were not sufficient even to bury them, since in one instant their most valued children had been destroyed.
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