OLD TESTAMENT

Wisdom 16:1

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

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Verse 1. Things. Septuagint “therefore by similar things they,” and so forth Bible.—The Egyptians were punished for their idolatry by beasts, though they worshipped them, ( Bible.) being infested with insects, frogs, locusts, and so forth (Calmet. 12:23. Exodus 8 and 10. Calmet.) and seeing their first-born perish for their cruelty. Worthington.

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