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Wisdom 18:21 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" For a blameless man hurried to be their champion, bringing the weapon of his own ministry, prayer, and the atoning sacrifice of incense. He withstood the indignation and set an end to the calamity, showing that he was your servant. "

Wisdom 18:21

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19 for the dreams, disturbing them, forewarned them of this, that they might not perish without knowing why they were afflicted.

20 The experience of death also touched the righteous, and a multitude were destroyed in the wilderness, but the wrath didn’t last long.

21 For a blameless man hurried to be their champion, bringing the weapon of his own ministry, prayer, and the atoning sacrifice of incense. He withstood the indignation and set an end to the calamity, showing that he was your servant.

22 And he overcame the anger, not by strength of body, not by force of weapons, but by his word, he subdued the avenger by bringing to remembrance oaths and covenants made with the fathers.

23 For when the dead had already fallen in heaps one upon another, he intervened and stopped the wrath, and cut off its way to the living.

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Wisdom 18:1

"But for your holy ones there was great light. Their enemies, hearing their voice but not seeing their form, counted it a happy thing that they too had suffered,"

Wisdom 18:2

"yet for that they do not hurt them, though wronged by them before, they are thankful; and because they had been at variance with them, they begged for pardon."

Wisdom 18:3

"Therefore you provided a burning pillar of fire, to be a guide for your people’s unknown journey, and a harmless sun for their glorious exile."

Wisdom 18:4

"For the Egyptians well deserved to be deprived of light and imprisoned by darkness, they who had imprisoned your children, through whom the incorruptible light of the law was to be given to the race of men."

Wisdom 18:5

"After they had taken counsel to kill the babes of the holy ones, and when a single child had been abandoned and saved to convict them of their sin, you took away from them their multitude of children, and destroyed all their army together in a mighty flood."

Wisdom 18:6

"Our fathers were made aware of that night beforehand, that, having sure knowledge, they might be cheered by the oaths which they had trusted."

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