OLD TESTAMENT

Wisdom 19:4

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For the doom which they deserved was drawing them to this end, and it made them forget the things that had happened to them, that they might fill up the punishment which was yet lacking from their torments,

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Verse 4. Necessity. God permitted them to be blinded by their own obstinacy. Calmet.—They rushed headlong into the channel of the Red Sea. Bible.

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