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      "verse": 1,
      "text": "Magna sunt enim judicia tua, Domine, et inenarrabilia verba tua : propter hoc indisciplinatæ animæ erraverunt.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 17:1 (Clementine Vulgate)"
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      "verse": 2,
      "text": "Dum enim persuasum habent iniqui posse dominari nationi sanctæ, vinculis tenebrarum et longæ noctis compediti, inclusi sub tectis, fugitivi perpetuæ providentiæ jacuerunt.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 17:2 (Clementine Vulgate)"
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      "verse": 3,
      "text": "Et dum putant se latere in obscuris peccatis, tenebroso oblivionis velamento dispersi sunt, paventes horrende, et cum admiratione nimia perturbati.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 17:3 (Clementine Vulgate)"
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      "verse": 4,
      "text": "Neque enim quæ continebat illos spelunca sine timore custodiebat, quoniam sonitus descendens perturbabat illos, et personæ tristes illis apparentes pavorem illis præstabant.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 17:4 (Clementine Vulgate)"
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      "verse": 5,
      "text": "Et ignis quidem nulla vis poterat illis lumen præbere, nec siderum limpidæ flammæ illuminare poterant illam noctem horrendam.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 17:5 (Clementine Vulgate)"
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      "verse": 6,
      "text": "Apparebat autem illis subitaneus ignis, timore plenus ; et timore perculsi illius quæ non videbatur faciei, æstimabant deteriora esse quæ videbantur.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 17:6 (Clementine Vulgate)"
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      "verse": 7,
      "text": "Et magicæ artis appositi erant derisus, et sapientiæ gloriæ correptio cum contumelia.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 17:7 (Clementine Vulgate)"
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      "verse": 8,
      "text": "Illi enim qui promittebant timores et perturbationes expellere se ab anima languente, hi cum derisu pleni timore languebant.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 17:8 (Clementine Vulgate)"
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      "verse": 9,
      "text": "Nam etsi nihil illos ex monstris perturbabat, transitu animalium et serpentium sibilatione commoti, tremebundi peribant, et aërem quem nulla ratione quis effugere posset, negantes se videre.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 17:9 (Clementine Vulgate)"
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      "verse": 10,
      "text": "Cum sit enim timida nequitia, dat testimonium condemnationis : semper enim præsumit sæva, perturbata conscientia :",
      "citation": "Wisdom 17:10 (Clementine Vulgate)"
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      "verse": 11,
      "text": "nihil enim est timor nisi proditio cogitationis auxiliorum.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 17:11 (Clementine Vulgate)"
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      "verse": 12,
      "text": "Et dum ab intus minor est exspectatio, majorem computat inscientiam ejus causæ, de qua tormentum præstat.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 17:12 (Clementine Vulgate)"
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      "verse": 13,
      "text": "Illi autem qui impotentem vere noctem, et ab infimis et ab altissimis inferis supervenientem, eumdem somnum dormientes,",
      "citation": "Wisdom 17:13 (Clementine Vulgate)"
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      "verse": 14,
      "text": "aliquando monstrorum exagitabantur timore, aliquando animæ deficiebant traductione : subitaneus enim illis et insperatus timor supervenerat.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 17:14 (Clementine Vulgate)"
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      "verse": 15,
      "text": "Deinde si quisquam ex illis decidisset, custodiebatur in carcere sine ferro reclusus.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 17:15 (Clementine Vulgate)"
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      "verse": 16,
      "text": "Si enim rusticus quis erat, aut pastor, aut agri laborum operarius præoccupatus esset, ineffugibilem sustinebat necessitatem ;",
      "citation": "Wisdom 17:16 (Clementine Vulgate)"
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      "verse": 17,
      "text": "una enim catena tenebrarum omnes erant colligati. Sive spiritus sibilans, aut inter spissos arborum ramos avium sonus suavis, aut vis aquæ decurrentis nimium,",
      "citation": "Wisdom 17:17 (Clementine Vulgate)"
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    {
      "verse": 18,
      "text": "aut sonus validus præcipitatarum petrarum, aut ludentium animalium cursus invisus, aut mugientium valida bestiarum vox, aut resonans de altissimis montibus echo : deficientes faciebant illos præ timore.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 17:18 (Clementine Vulgate)"
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    {
      "verse": 19,
      "text": "Omnis enim orbis terrarum limpido illuminabatur lumine, et non impeditis operibus continebatur.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 17:19 (Clementine Vulgate)"
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      "verse": 20,
      "text": "Solis autem illis superposita erat gravis nox, imago tenebrarum quæ superventura illis erat : ipsi ergo sibi erant graviores tenebris.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 17:20 (Clementine Vulgate)"
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