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Chap. XVII.
note
Horrible darkenes falling in Ægypt. 19. the rest of the world had ordinarie
light.
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1 For thy iudgements ô Lord are great, & thy wordes inexplicable,
for this cause the soules lacking discipline haue
erred.
2 For whiles the wicked are perswaded that they can
rule ouer the holie nation: fettered with the bands of darknes,
and note long night, shut vp vnder roofes, they haue lyen fugitiues
from the euerlasting prouidence.
3 And whiles they
thincke that they lie hid in obscure sinnes, they were dispersed
by the darke couert of obliuion, being horribly afrayd and
disturbed with exceding admiration.
4 For neither did the
denne that conteyned them, keepe them without feare:
because the sound coming downe trubled them, and sorowful
visions appearing to them, put them in feare.
5 And no force
certes of the fyre could geue them light, neither could the
clere flames of the starres lighten that horrible night.
6 But
there appeared to them soden fyre, ful of feare: and being
stroken with the feare of that face, which was not sene, they
estemed the thinges that were sene to be worse:
7 and there
were added derisions of the magical art, and contumelicus
rebuke of the glorie of their wisdom.
8 For they which promised
that they would expel feares and perturbations from
the languishing soule, these with derision languished ful of
feare.
9 For although none of the monsters disturbed them:
being moued with the passing by of beasts, and hissing of serpents,
they perished trembling: and denying that they saw
the ayre, which by no meanes any man could avoyde.
10 For
wheras wickednes is fearful, it geueth testimonie of condemnation:
for note a trubled conscience doth alwayes presume
cruel thinges.
11 For feare is nothing els but a bewraying of
the aydes of cogitation.
12 And whiles inwardly there is lesse
expectation, the greater doth he count the ignorance of that
cause which maketh the torment.
13 But they that during the
night in deede impotent, and coming vpon them from the
lowest and highest hel, slept the same sleepe,
14 were sometime
molested with the feare of monsters, sometime fayled by
passing away of the soule: for soden feare and vnlooked for
came vpon them.
15 Moreouer if any of them had fallen
downe, he was kept shut vp in prison without yron.
16 For if
one were a husbandman, or if a shepheard, or worker of the
labours in the filde were sodenly taken, he susteyned necessitie
ineuitable.
17 For with one chayne of darkenes they were al
tyed together. Whether it were the hissing winde, or among
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the thicke boughes of trees the sweete sound of birdes, or the
force of water running downward exceedingly,
18 or the
mightie sound of rockes tumbled headlong, or the running
of playing beasts, that were not sene, or the mightie noyse of
roaring beastes, or an Echo resounding from the highest mountaynes:
they made them swoone for feare.
19 For note al the world
was illuminated with a cleare light, & none was hindered in
their workes.
20 But ouer them onlie was layd an heauie night,
the image of darkenes, which was to come vpon them. They
therfore were vnto themselues more heauie then the darknes.
Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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