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Wisdom 16:19 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" At another time even in the midst of water it burns more intensely than fire, that it may destroy the produce of an unrighteous land. "

Wisdom 16:19

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17 For, what was most marvelous, in the water which quenches all things, the fire burned hotter; for the world fights for the righteous.

18 For at one time the flame was restrained, that it might not burn up the creatures sent against the ungodly, but that these themselves as they looked might see that they were chased by the judgment of God.

19 At another time even in the midst of water it burns more intensely than fire, that it may destroy the produce of an unrighteous land.

20 Instead of these things, you gave your people angels’ food to eat, and you provided ready-to-eat bread for them from heaven without toil, having the virtue of every pleasant flavor, and agreeable to every taste.

21 For your nature showed your sweetness toward your children, while that bread, serving the desire of the eater, changed itself according to every man’s choice.

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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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