13. For while they were disbelieving all things by reason of the enchantments, Upon the destruction of the firstborn they confessed the people to be God’s son.
14. For while peaceful silence enwrapped all things, And night in her own swiftness was in mid course,
15. Your all-powerful word leaped from heaven out of the royal throne, A stern warrior, into the midst of the doomed land,
16. Bearing as a sharp sword your unfeigned commandment; And standing it filled all things with death; And while it touched the heaven it trode upon the earth.
17. Then forthwith apparitions in dreams terribly troubled them, And fears came upon them unlooked for.
18. And each, one thrown here half dead, another there, Made manifest wherefore he was dying:
19. For the dreams, perturbing them, did foreshew this, That they might not perish without knowing why they were afflicted.