6. For that night was known beforehand by our fathers, so that, knowing the truth of the oaths in which they had trusted, they might be more peaceful in their souls.
7. Yet your people received not only the salvation of the just, but also the destruction of the unjust.
8. For just as you wounded our adversaries, so also did you greatly esteem calling us forth.
9. For the just children of goodness were secretly offering sacrifice, and in agreement they administered the law of justice, so that both good and bad would be able to receive justice, and so that you might now approve of their chanting to the father.
10. On the other hand, a dissimilar voice was resounding from the enemies, and a lamentable wailing was heard for the children who were being cried over.
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.