1
Therefore those men were deservedly punished through such creatures, and were tormented by a multitude of animals.
2
Instead of this punishment thou didst show kindness to thy people, and thou didst prepare quails to eat, a delicacy to satisfy the desire of appetite;
3
in order that those men, when they desired food, might lose the least remnant of appetite because of the odious creatures sent to them, while thy people, after suffering want a short time, might partake of delicacies.
4
For it was necessary that upon those oppressors inexorable want should come, while to these it was merely shown how their enemies were being tormented.
5
For when the terrible rage of wild beasts came upon thy people and they were being destroyed by the bites of writhing serpents, thy wrath did not continue to the end;
6
they were troubled for a little while as a warning, and received a token of deliverance to remind them of thy law's command.
7
For he who turned toward it was saved, not by what he saw, but by thee, the Savior of all.
8
And by this also thou didst convince our enemies that it is thou who deliverest from every evil.