Wisdom 17
17
1For #Ex. 6.6 & 7.4.great are thy judgements, #Cp. Ps. 92.5,6.and hard to #17.1 Or set forthinterpret;
Therefore souls #Cp. ch. 1.4,5.undisciplined went astray.
2For when lawless men had supposed that they held a holy nation in their power,
# Cp. ver. 16,17 & ch. 18.4 & Ex. 10.22,23. They themselves, prisoners of darkness, and bound in the fetters of a long night,
Close kept beneath their roofs,
Lay exiled from the eternal providence.
3For #Cp. Is. 29.15.while they thought that they were unseen in their secret sins,
They were #17.3 Gr. scattered by.sundered one from another by a dark curtain of forgetfulness,
Stricken with terrible awe, and sore troubled by #Cp. Ps. 78.49.spectral forms.
4For neither did #17.4 Gr. the recess.the dark recesses that held them guard them from fears,
But #Cp. Job 15.21.sounds #17.4 Some authorities read troubling them sore.rushing down rang around them,
And #Cp. Ps. 78.49.phantoms appeared, cheerless with unsmiling faces.
5And no force of fire prevailed to give them light,
# Cp. Ezek. 32.7,8. Neither were the brightest flames of the stars strong enough to illumine that gloomy night:
6 # See Deut. 28.65-67. But only there appeared to them the glimmering of a fire self-kindled, full of fear;
And in terror they deemed the things which they saw
To be worse than that sight, on which they could not gaze.
7 # 17.7 Some authorities read And the mockeries of magic art lay low, and shameful was the rebuke & c. And they lay helpless, #ch. 18.13. See Ex. 7.11.made the sport of magic art,
And #Cp. Ex. 8.18 & 9.11.a shameful rebuke of their vaunts of understanding:
8For they that promised to drive away terrors and troublings from a sick soul,
These were themselves sick with a ludicrous fearfulness:
9For even if no troublous thing affrighted them,
Yet, #See ch. 16.1.scared with the creepings of vermin and hissings of serpents, 10they perished #17.10 Or trembling, and refusing tofor very trembling,
Refusing even to look on the air, which could on no side be escaped.
11 # 17.11 This is the probable sense: the Greek text is perhaps slightly corrupt. For wickedness, #Cp. Rom. 2.15 & 1 John 3.20.condemned by a witness within, #Cp. Ps. 53.5 & Prov. 28.1.is a coward thing,
And, #Cp. Gen. 42.21.being pressed hard by conscience, #See Job 15.20-24.always #17.11 Most authorities read hath added.forecasteth the worst lot:
12For fear is nothing else but #Cp. ver. 15.a surrender of the succours which reason offereth;
13And from within the heart the expectation of them being less
Maketh of greater account the ignorance of the cause that bringeth the torment.
14But they, all through the night which was powerless indeed,
And which came upon them out of the recesses of powerless Hades,
All sleeping the same sleep,
15Now were haunted by #Cp. ver. 3.monstrous apparitions,
And now were paralysed by their soul's #Cp. ver. 12.surrendering;
For fear sudden and unlooked for #17.15 Some authorities read was poured upon them.came upon them.
16So then every man, whosoever it might be, sinking down #17.16 Gr. there. #Cp. Ex. 10.23.in his place,
Was kept in ward shut up in that prison which was barred not with iron:
17For whether he were a husbandman, or a shepherd,
Or a labourer whose toils were in the wilderness,
He was overtaken, and endured that inevitable necessity,
# ch. 18.4. For with one chain of darkness were they all bound.
18 # Cp. Lev. 26.36. Whether there were #Cp. Song of Three 27.a whistling wind,
Or a melodious noise of birds among the spreading branches,
Or a measured fall of water running violently,
19Or a harsh crashing of rocks hurled down,
Or the swift course of animals bounding along unseen,
Or the voice of wild beasts harshly roaring,
Or an echo rebounding from #17.19 Or a hollowthe hollows of the mountains,
# Cp. Ps. 53.5. All these things paralysed them with terror.
20 # See Ex. 10.23. For the whole world beside was enlightened with clear light,
And was occupied with unhindered works;
21 #
Ex. 10.22. While over them alone was spread a heavy night,
An image of the darkness #Cp. Job 18.18 & 2 Pet. 2.17 & Jude 13.that should afterward receive them;
But yet heavier than darkness were they #Cp. Jer. 20.4.unto themselves.
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Wisdom 17
17
1For #Ex. 6.6 & 7.4.great are thy judgements, #Cp. Ps. 92.5,6.and hard to #17.1 Or set forthinterpret;
Therefore souls #Cp. ch. 1.4,5.undisciplined went astray.
2For when lawless men had supposed that they held a holy nation in their power,
# Cp. ver. 16,17 & ch. 18.4 & Ex. 10.22,23. They themselves, prisoners of darkness, and bound in the fetters of a long night,
Close kept beneath their roofs,
Lay exiled from the eternal providence.
3For #Cp. Is. 29.15.while they thought that they were unseen in their secret sins,
They were #17.3 Gr. scattered by.sundered one from another by a dark curtain of forgetfulness,
Stricken with terrible awe, and sore troubled by #Cp. Ps. 78.49.spectral forms.
4For neither did #17.4 Gr. the recess.the dark recesses that held them guard them from fears,
But #Cp. Job 15.21.sounds #17.4 Some authorities read troubling them sore.rushing down rang around them,
And #Cp. Ps. 78.49.phantoms appeared, cheerless with unsmiling faces.
5And no force of fire prevailed to give them light,
# Cp. Ezek. 32.7,8. Neither were the brightest flames of the stars strong enough to illumine that gloomy night:
6 # See Deut. 28.65-67. But only there appeared to them the glimmering of a fire self-kindled, full of fear;
And in terror they deemed the things which they saw
To be worse than that sight, on which they could not gaze.
7 # 17.7 Some authorities read And the mockeries of magic art lay low, and shameful was the rebuke & c. And they lay helpless, #ch. 18.13. See Ex. 7.11.made the sport of magic art,
And #Cp. Ex. 8.18 & 9.11.a shameful rebuke of their vaunts of understanding:
8For they that promised to drive away terrors and troublings from a sick soul,
These were themselves sick with a ludicrous fearfulness:
9For even if no troublous thing affrighted them,
Yet, #See ch. 16.1.scared with the creepings of vermin and hissings of serpents, 10they perished #17.10 Or trembling, and refusing tofor very trembling,
Refusing even to look on the air, which could on no side be escaped.
11 # 17.11 This is the probable sense: the Greek text is perhaps slightly corrupt. For wickedness, #Cp. Rom. 2.15 & 1 John 3.20.condemned by a witness within, #Cp. Ps. 53.5 & Prov. 28.1.is a coward thing,
And, #Cp. Gen. 42.21.being pressed hard by conscience, #See Job 15.20-24.always #17.11 Most authorities read hath added.forecasteth the worst lot:
12For fear is nothing else but #Cp. ver. 15.a surrender of the succours which reason offereth;
13And from within the heart the expectation of them being less
Maketh of greater account the ignorance of the cause that bringeth the torment.
14But they, all through the night which was powerless indeed,
And which came upon them out of the recesses of powerless Hades,
All sleeping the same sleep,
15Now were haunted by #Cp. ver. 3.monstrous apparitions,
And now were paralysed by their soul's #Cp. ver. 12.surrendering;
For fear sudden and unlooked for #17.15 Some authorities read was poured upon them.came upon them.
16So then every man, whosoever it might be, sinking down #17.16 Gr. there. #Cp. Ex. 10.23.in his place,
Was kept in ward shut up in that prison which was barred not with iron:
17For whether he were a husbandman, or a shepherd,
Or a labourer whose toils were in the wilderness,
He was overtaken, and endured that inevitable necessity,
# ch. 18.4. For with one chain of darkness were they all bound.
18 # Cp. Lev. 26.36. Whether there were #Cp. Song of Three 27.a whistling wind,
Or a melodious noise of birds among the spreading branches,
Or a measured fall of water running violently,
19Or a harsh crashing of rocks hurled down,
Or the swift course of animals bounding along unseen,
Or the voice of wild beasts harshly roaring,
Or an echo rebounding from #17.19 Or a hollowthe hollows of the mountains,
# Cp. Ps. 53.5. All these things paralysed them with terror.
20 # See Ex. 10.23. For the whole world beside was enlightened with clear light,
And was occupied with unhindered works;
21 #
Ex. 10.22. While over them alone was spread a heavy night,
An image of the darkness #Cp. Job 18.18 & 2 Pet. 2.17 & Jude 13.that should afterward receive them;
But yet heavier than darkness were they #Cp. Jer. 20.4.unto themselves.
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