6. But for admonition were they troubled for a short space, Having a token of salvation, To put them in remembrance of the commandment of your law:
7. For he that turned toward it was not saved because of that which was seen, But because of you, the Saviour of all.
8. Yes, and in this did you persuade our enemies, That you are he that delivers out of every evil.
9. For them verily the bites of locusts and flies did kill, And there was not found a healing for their life, Because they were worthy to be punished by such as these;
10. But your sons not the very teeth of venomous dragons overcame, For your mercy passed by where they were, and healed them.
11. For they were bitten, to put them in remembrance of your oracles; And were quickly saved, lest, falling into deep forgetfulness, They should become unable to be roused by your beneficence:
12. For of a truth it was neither herb nor mollifying plaister that cured them, But your word, O Lord, which heals all things;
13. For you have authority over life and death, And you lead down to the gates of Hades, and lead up again.
14. But though a man may kill by his wickedness, Yet the spirit that is gone forth he turns not again, Neither gives release to the soul that Hades has received.
15. But your hand it is not possible to escape;
16. For ungodly men, refusing to know you, were scourged in the strength of your arm, Pursued with strange rains and hails and showers inexorable, And utterly consumed with fire;
17. For, what was most marvelous of all, In the water which quenches all things the fire wrought yet more mightily; For the world fights for the righteous.
18. For at one time the flame lost its fierceness, That it might not burn up the creatures sent against the ungodly, But that these themselves as they looked might see that they were chased through the judgement of God:
19. And at another time even in the midst of water it burns above the power of fire, That it may destroy the fruits of an unrighteous land.
20. Instead whereof you gave your people angels’ food to eat, And bread ready for their use did you provide for them from heaven without their toil, Bread having the virtue of every pleasant savor, And agreeing to every taste;
21. For your nature manifested your sweetness toward your children; While that bread, ministering to the desire of the eater, Tempered itself according to every man’s choice.
22. But snow and ice endured fire, and melted not, That men might know that fire was destroying the fruits of the enemies, Burning in the hail and flashing in the rains;