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Wisdom 12:22 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Therefore while you chasten us, you scourge our enemies ten thousand times more, to the intent that we may ponder your goodness when we judge, and when we are judged may look for mercy. "
Wisdom 12:22
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20 For if on those who were enemies of your servants and deserving of death, you took vengeance with so great deliberation and indulgence, giving them times and opportunities when they might escape from their wickedness,
21 with how great care you judged your sons, to whose fathers you gave oaths and covenants of good promises!
22 Therefore while you chasten us, you scourge our enemies ten thousand times more, to the intent that we may ponder your goodness when we judge, and when we are judged may look for mercy.
23 Therefore also the unrighteous that lived in a life of folly, you tormented through their own abominations.
24 For truly they went astray very far in the ways of error, Taking as gods those animals which even among their enemies were held in dishonor, deceived like foolish babes.
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Wisdom 12:1
"For your incorruptible spirit is in all things."
Wisdom 12:2
"Therefore you convict little by little those who fall from the right way, and, putting them in remembrance by the things wherein they sin, you admonish them, that escaping from their wickedness they may believe in you, O Lord."
Wisdom 12:3
"For truly the old inhabitants of your holy land,"
Wisdom 12:4
"hating them because they practiced detestable works of enchantments and unholy rites—"
Wisdom 12:5
"merciless slaughters of children and sacrificial banquets of men’s flesh and of blood—"
Wisdom 12:6
"allies in an impious fellowship, and murderers of their own helpless babes, it was your counsel to destroy by the hands of our fathers;"
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