1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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Wisdom 16:1

For these things, and by the like things to these, they were worthily punished, and were destroyed by a multitude of beasts.

Things. Septuagint, "therefore by similar things they," etc. (Haydock) --- The Egyptians were punished for their idolatry by beasts, though they worshipped them, (Haydock) being infested with insects, frogs, locusts, etc., (chap. 12:23., and Exodus viii., and x.; Calmet) and seeing their first-born perish for their cruelty. (Worthington)