DB1 | Light shines on the Israelites. Wis.18.1-4 | KNSB Contents | notes| 18 | katapi NEW STUDY BIBLE | Passage | Old Testament in Greek (Septuagint) |
| 18 1 | But for your holy ones there was very great light. Their enemies heard their voices but did not see their forms, and counted them happy for not having suffered, | Light shines on the Israelites. Wis.18.1-4 | Τοῖς δὲ ὁσίοις σου μέγιστον ἦν φῶς· ὧν φωνὴν μὲν ἀκούοντες μορφὴν δὲ οὐχ ὁρῶντες, ὅτι μὲν οὐ κἀκεῖνοι ἐπεπόνθεισαν, ἐμακάριζον, |
| 2 | and were thankful that your holy ones, though previously wronged, were doing them no injury; and they begged their pardon for having been at variance with them. | ὅτι δ' οὐ βλάπτουσιν προηδικημένοι, ηὐχαρίστουν καὶ τοῦ διενεχθῆναι χάριν ἐδέοντο. | |
| 3 | Therefore you provided a flaming pillar of fire as a guide for your people's unknown journey, and a harmless sun for their glorious wandering. | ἀνθ' ὧν πυριφλεγῆ στῦλον ὁδηγὸν μὲν ἀγνώστου ὁδοιπορίας, ἥλιον δὲ ἀβλαβῆ φιλοτίμου ξενιτείας παρέσχες. | |
| 4 | For their enemies deserved to be deprived of light and imprisoned in darkness, those who had kept your sons imprisoned, through whom the imperishable light of the law was to be given to the world. | ἄξιοι μὲν γὰρ ἐκεῖνοι στερηθῆναι φωτὸς καὶ φυλακισθῆναι σκότει, οἱ κατακλείστους φυλάξαντες τοὺς υἱούς σου, δι' ὧν ἤμελλεν τὸ ἄφθαρτον νόμου φῶς τῷ αἰῶνι δίδοσθαι. | |