18:22 So he overcame the destroyer, not with strength of body, nor force of arms, but with a word subdued him that punished, alleging the oaths and covenants made with the fathers.
18:23 For when the dead were now fallen down by heaps one upon another, standing between, he stayed the wrath, and parted the way to the living.
18:24 For in the long garment was the whole world, and in the four rows of the stones was the glory of the fathers graven, and thy Majesty upon the daidem.
18:25 Unto these the destroyer gave place, and was afraid of them: for it was enough that they only tasted of the wrath.
19:1 As for the ungodly, wrath came upon them without mercy unto the end: for he knew before what they would do;
19:2 How that having given them leave to depart, and sent them hastily away, they would repent and pursue them.
19:3 For whilst they were yet mourning and making lamentation at the graves of the dead, they added another foolish device, and pursued them as fugitives, whom they had intreated to be gone.
19:4 For the destiny, whereof they were worthy, drew them unto this end, and made them forget the things that had already happened, that they might fulfil the punishment which was wanting to their torments:
19:5 And that thy people might pass a wonderful way: but they might find a strange death.
19:6 For the whole creature in his proper kind was fashioned again anew, serving the peculiar commandments that were given unto them, that thy children might be kept without hurt: