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But thy saints had a very great light, and they heard their voice indeed, but did not see their shape. And because they also did not suffer the same things, they glorified thee:
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And they that before had been wronged, gave thanks, because they were not hurt now: and asked this gift, that there might be a difference.
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Therefore they received a burning pillar of fire for a guide of the way which they knew not, and thou gavest them a harmless sun of a good entertainment.
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The others indeed were worthy to be deprived of light, and imprisoned in darkness, who kept thy children shut up, by whom the pure light of the law was to be given to the world.
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And whereas they thought to kill the babes of the just, one child being cast forth, and saved, to reprove them, thou tookest away a multitude of their children, and destroyedst them all together in a mighty water.
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For that night was known before by our fathers, that assuredly knowing what oaths they had trusted to, they might be of better courage.
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So thy people received the salvation of the just, and destruction of the unjust.
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For as thou didst punish the adversaries: so thou didst also encourage and glorify us.
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For the just children of good men were offering sacrifice secretly, and they unanimously ordered a law of justice: that the just should receive both good and evil alike, singing now the praises of the fathers.
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But on the other side there sounded an ill according cry of the enemies, and a lamentable mourning was heard for the children that were bewailed.
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And the servant suffered the same punishment as the master, and a common man suffered in like manner as the king.