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Wisdom 16:13 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" For you have authority over life and death, and you lead down to the gates of Hades, and lead up again. "

Wisdom 16:13

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11 For they were bitten to put them in remembrance of your oracles, and were quickly saved, lest, falling into deep forgetfulness, they should become unable to respond to your kindness.

12 For truly it was neither herb nor poultice that cured them, but your word, O Lord, which heals all people.

13 For you have authority over life and death, and you lead down to the gates of Hades, and lead up again.

14 But though a man kills by his wickedness, he can’t retrieve the spirit that has departed or release the imprisoned soul.

15 But it is not possible to escape your hand;

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Wisdom 16:1

"For this cause, they were deservedly punished through creatures like those which they worship, and tormented through a multitude of vermin."

Wisdom 16:2

"Instead of this punishment, you, giving benefits to your people, prepared quails for food, a delicacy to satisfy the desire of their appetite,"

Wisdom 16:3

"to the end that your enemies, desiring food, might for the hideousness of the creatures sent among them, loathe even the necessary appetite; but these, your people, having for a short time suffered lack, might even partake of delicacies."

Wisdom 16:4

"For it was necessary that inescapable lack should come upon those oppressors, but that to these it should only be showed how their enemies were tormented."

Wisdom 16:5

"For even when terrible raging of wild beasts came upon your people, and they were perishing by the bites of crooked serpents, your wrath didn’t continue to the uttermost;"

Wisdom 16:6

"but for admonition were they troubled for a short time, having a token of salvation to put them in remembrance of the commandment of your law;"

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