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you hated for their detestable practices, their works of sorcery and unholy rites,
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their merciless slaughter of children, and their sacrificial feasting on human flesh and blood. These initiates from the midst of a heathen cult,
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these parents who murder helpless lives, you willed to destroy by the hands of our ancestors,
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so that the land most precious of all to you might receive a worthy colony of the servants of God.
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But even these you spared, since they were but mortals, and sent wasps as forerunners of your army to destroy them little by little,