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For whom they rejected with scorn, when he was long before thrown out at the casting forth of the infants, him in the end, when they saw what came to pass, they admired.
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But for the foolish devices of their wickedness wherewith, being deceived, they worshiped serpents void of reason and vile beasts, Thou didst send a multitude of unreasonable beasts upon them for vengeance,
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that they might know that wherewithal a man sinneth, by the same also shall he be punished.
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For Thy almighty hand, that made the world from matter without form, lacked not means to send among them a multitude of bears or fierce lions,
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or unknown wild beasts full of rage, newly created, breathing out either a fiery vapor, or filthy scents of scattered smoke, or shooting horrible sparkles out of their eyes,
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