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Wisdom 18:12-14
New Catholic Bible
Wisdom 18:12-14
New Catholic Bible
12 And all alike, afflicted by the same form of death,
had corpses too many to count.
For there were not enough who were left alive to bury the dead,
since in a single instant their most precious offspring had been destroyed.
13 Formerly they had disbelieved everything as a result of their sorceries,
but at the destruction of their firstborn they acknowledged this people to be the offspring of God.
14 [a]For when profound silence encompassed all things
and the night was at midpoint in its swift course,
Footnotes
- Wisdom 18:14 God intervenes by his word in the middle of the night. A Jewish tradition assigned to the night of the Passover the great events of the history of the chosen people: Creation, appearance of Abraham, the Exodus, and the coming of the Messiah. The Liturgy has applied this text in the accommodated sense to the birth of Jesus (“Word” of God) that took place precisely by night.
Concerning the Word, a double-edged sword that executes God’s judgments, see Isa 49:2; Heb 4:12; Rev 1:16; 2:12.
