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He conquered the wrath not by strength of body, and not by force of arms, but by his word he subdued the punisher, appealing to the oaths and covenants given to our fathers.
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For when the dead had already fallen on one another in heaps, he intervened and held back the wrath, and cut off its way to the living.
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For upon his long robe the whole world was depicted, and the glories of the fathers were engraved on the four rows of stones, and thy majesty on the diadem upon his head.
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To these the destroyer yielded, these he feared; for merely to test the wrath was enough.