“Dum enim persuasum habent iniqui posse dominari nationi sanctæ, vinculis tenebrarum et longæ noctis compediti, inclusi sub tectis, fugitivi perpetuæ providentiæ jacuerunt.”
“For when unrighteous men thought to oppress the holy nation; they being shut up in their houses, the prisoners of darkness, and fettered with the bonds of a long night, lay there exiled from the eternal providence.”
“For when lawless men had supposed that they held a holy nation in their power, They, themselves, prisoners of darkness, and bound in the fetters of a long night, Close kept beneath their roofs, Lay exiled from the eternal providence.”
Providence, and day-light, like incorrigible slaves, in prison. (Calmet) — The Egyptians were three days in darkness, (Exodus x. 22.) and the Gentiles continued without faith in God, till after Christ’s resurrection. (Worthington) — Only few served him, before that glorious event.