16 Who did not admire those champions of true legislation? who were not astonied?
17 The tyrant himself, and all their council, admired their endurance;
18 through which, also, they now stand beside the divine throne, and live a blessed life.
19 For Moses says, And all the saints are under your hands.
20 These, therefore, having been sanctified through God, have been honored not only with this honor, but that also by their means the enemy did not overcome our nation;
21 and that the tyrant was punished, and their country purified.
22 For they became the ransom to the sin of the nation; and the Divine Providence saved Israel, aforetime afflicted, by the blood of those pious ones, and the propitiatory death.