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Wisdom 18:4-6
New Catholic Bible
Wisdom 18:4-6
New Catholic Bible
4 But their enemies deserved to be denied light and to be incarcerated in darkness,
for they had made prisoners of your children
through whom the incorruptible light of your law was to be given to the world.[a]
The Exterminator
5 After they had decided to slay the infants of your holy ones,
and just a single boy[b] had been abandoned and rescued,
you in retribution carried off a multitude of their sons
and destroyed them all in the raging waters.
6 That night had been made known beforehand[c] to our ancestors,
so that, with accurate knowledge of the promises in which they had put their confidence,
they could be of good heart.
Footnotes
- Wisdom 18:4 The Prophets had declared that the Jews would be the light of the nations (see Isa 42:1; 60:9-11; Jn 4:22).
- Wisdom 18:5 Single boy: i.e., Moses.
- Wisdom 18:6 Made known beforehand: by Moses, who transmitted to the people the orders and promises he received from God (Ex 11–12), and perhaps also by the Patriarchs (Gen 15:13-14).
