Salomon 17
The judgments of God against the wicked.
FOR thy judgements are great, and can not be expressed: therefore men do err, that will not be reformed.
For when the unrighteous thought to have thine holy people in subjection, they were bound with the bands of darkness, and long night, and being shut up under the rose, did lie there to escape the everlasting providence.
And while they thought to be hid in their dark sins, they were scattered abroad in the dark covering of forgetfulness, fearing horribly and troubled with visions.
For the den that hid them, kept them not from fear: but the sounds that were about them, troubled them, and terrible visions and sorrowful sights did appear.
No power of the fire might give light, neither might the clear flames of the stars lighten the horrible night.
For there appeared unto them only a sudden fire, very dreadful: so that being afraid of this vision, which they could not see, they thought the things, which they saw, to be worse.
And the illusions of the magical arts were brought down, and it was a most shameful reproach for the boasting of their knowledge.
For they that promised to drive away fear and trouble from the sick person, were sick for fear, and worthy to be laughed at.
And though no fearful thing did fear them, yet were they afraid at the beasts which passed by them, and at the hissing of the serpents: so that they died for fear, and said they saw not the air, which by no means can be avoided.
For it is a fearful thing, when malice is condemned by her own testimony: and a conscience that is touched, doth ever forecast cruel things.
For fear is nothing else, but a betraying of the succors, which reason offers.
And the less that the hope is within, the more doth he esteem the ignorance of the thing, that torments him, great.
But they that did endure the night that was intolerable, and that came out of the dungeon of hell, which is insupportable, slept the same sleep,
And sometimes were troubled with monstrous visions, and sometime they sounded, as though their own soul should betray them: for a sudden fear not looked for, came upon them.
And thus, whosoever fell down, he was kept and shut in prison, but without chains.
For whether he was an husbandman, or a shepherd, or one that was set to work alone, if he were taken, he must suffer this necessity, that he could not avoid:
(For with one chain of darkness were they all bound) whether it were in hissing wind, or a sweet song of the birds among the thick branches of the trees, or the vehemency of hasty running water,
Or a great noise of the falling down of stones, or the running of skipping beasts, that could not be seen, or the noise of cruel beasts that roared, or the sound that answers again in the hollow mountains: these fearful things made them to swoon.
For all the world shined with clear light, and no man was hindered in his labor.
Only upon them there fell an heavy night, an image of that darkness that was to come upon them: yea, they were unto themselves more grievous than darkness.
Salomon 18
3 The fiery piller that the Israelites had in Egypt. 8 The deliverance of the faithful. 10 The Lord smote the Egyptians. 20 The sin of the people in the wilderness. 21 Aaron stood between the living and the dead with his censure.
BUT thy Saints had a very great light, whose voice because they heard, and saw not the figure of them, they thought them blessed, because they also had not suffered the like.
And because they did not hurt them, which did hurt them afore, they thanked them, and asked pardon for their enemies.
Therefore thou gavest them a burning piller of fire to lead them in the unknown way, and made the sun that it hurt not them in their honorable journey.
But they were worthy to be deprived of the light, and to be kept in darkness, which had kept thy children shut up, by whom the uncorrupt light of the Law should be given to the world.
Where as they thought to slay the babes of the Saints, by one child that was cast out, and preserved to reprove them, thou hast taken away the multitude of their children and destroyed them all together in the mighty water.
Of that night were our fathers certified afore, that they knowing unto what others they had given credit, might be of good cheer.
Thus thy people received the health of the righteous, but the enemies were destroyed.
For as thou hast punished the enemies, so hast thou glorified us whom thou hast called.
For the righteous children of the good men offered secretly, and made a law of righteousness by one consent, that the Saints should receive good and evil in like manner, and that the fathers should first sing praises.
But a disagreeing price was heard of the enemies, and there was a lamentable notice for the children that were bewailed.
For the master and the servant were punished with like punishment, and the common people suffered alike with the King.
So they altogether had innumerable that died with one kind of death: neither were the living sufficient to bury them: for in the twinkling of an eye the noblest offspring of them was destroyed.
So they that could believe nothing, because of the enchantments, confessed this people to be the children of God, in the destruction of the first born.
For while all things were in quiet silence, and the night was in the midst of her swift course,
Thine almighty word leapt down from heaven out of thy royal throne, as a fierce man of war in the midst of the land that was destroyed.
And brought thine unfainted commandment as a sharp sword, and stood up, and filled all things with death, and being come down to the earth, it reached unto the heavens.
Then the sight of the fearful dreams vexed them suddenly, and fearfulness came upon them unawares.
Then lay there one here, another there half dead, and showed the cause of his death.
For the visions that vexed them, showed them these things afore: so that they were not ignorant, wherefore they perished.
Now temptation of death touched the righteous also, and among the multitude in the wilderness there was a plague, but the wrath endured not long.
For the blameless man made haste, and defended them, and took the weapons of his ministration, even prayer, and the reconciliation by the perfume, and set himself against the wrath, and so brought the misery to an end, declaring that he was thy servant.
For he overcame not the multitude with bodily power, nor with force of weapons, but with the word he subdued him that punished, alleging the oaths and covenant made unto the fathers.
For when the dead were fallen down by heaps one upon another, he stood in the midst, and cut off the wrath, and parted it from coming to the living.
For in the long garments was all the ornament, and in the four rows of the stones was the glory of the father’s graven with thy majesty in the diadem of his head.
Unto these the destroyer gave place, and was afraid of them: for it was sufficient, that they had tasted the wrath.
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