Bible Reading: Book of Wisdom

Bible Reading: Book of Wisdom

Wisdom 18: 1-4

But your holy ones had very great light; and those others, who heard their voices but did not see their forms, since now they themselves had suffered, called them blest; and because they who formerly had been wronged did not harm them, they thanked them, and pleaded with them, for the sake of the difference between them. By contrast, you furnished the flaming pillar which was a guide on the unknown way, and the mild sun for an honorable migration. For those deserved to be deprived of light and imprisoned by darkness, who had kept your sons confined through whom the imperishable light of the Law was to be given to the world.

5. When they determined to put to death the infants of the holy ones, and when a single boy had been cast forth but saved, as a reproof you carried off their multitude of sons and destroyed them all at once in the mighty water.