11. But the same punishment afflicted the servant with the master, and the common man endured the same as the king.
12. Therefore, all were the same, with one name for death, and the dead were innumerable. For neither were the living sufficient to bury the dead, because, with a single effort, their most illustrious nation was exterminated.
13. For they would not believe anything because of the drugs; then truly, at the beginning, when the extermination of the firstborn happened, they pledged the people to belong to God.
14. For, when a quiet silence surrounded all things, and when the course of the night was passing the middle of its journey,
15. your almighty word from heaven leapt down from your royal throne, as a fierce warrior in the midst of the land of extermination,
16. as a sharp sword carrying your unfeigned authority, and standing, filled all things with death, and, standing on the earth, reached all the way up to touch heaven.
17. Then, incessant visions of nightmares disturbed them, and unexpected fears overcame them.
18. And another was thrown down elsewhere half-alive; and so, by means of that which was dying, the cause of death was revealed.
19. For the visions that disturbed them had forewarned of these things, lest they should perish and not know why they suffered these evils.