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Daniel - ch 13 v 41 - 60
- The multitude believed them as being the elders and the judges of the people, and they condemned her to death.
- Then Susanna cried out with a loud voice, and said: O eternal God, who knowest hidden things, who knowest all things before they come to pass,
- Thou knowest that they have borne false witness against me: and behold I must die, whereas I have done none of these things, which these men have maliciously forged against me.
- And the Lord heard her voice.
- And when she was led to be put to death, the Lord raised up the holy spirit of a young boy, whose name was Daniel.
- And he cried out with a loud voice I am clear from the blood of this woman.
- Then all the people turning themselves towards him, said: What meaneth this word that thou hast spoken?
- But he standing in the midst of them, said: Are ye so foolish, ye children of Israel, that without examination or knowledge of the truth, you have condemned a daughter of Israel?
- Return to judgment, for they have borne false witness against her.
- So all the people turned again in haste, and the old men said to him: Come, and sit thou down among us, and shew it as: seeing God hath given thee the honour of old age.
- And Daniel said to the people: Separate these two far from one another, and I will examine them.
- So when they were put asunder one from the other, he called one of them, and said to him: O thou that art grown old in evil days, now are thy sins come out, which thou hast committed before:
- In judging unjust judgments, oppressing the innocent, and letting the guilty to go free, whereas the Lord saith: I The innocent and the just thou shalt not kill.
- Now then, if thou sawest her, tell me under what tree thou sawest them conversing together. He said: Under a mastic tree.
- And Daniel said: Well hast thou lied against thy own head: for behold the angel of God having received the sentence of him, shall cut thee in two.
- And having put him aside, he commanded that the other should come, and he said to him: O thou seed of Chanaan, and not of Juda, beauty hath deceived thee, and lust hath perverted thy heart:
- Thus did you do to the daughters of Israel, and they for fear conversed with you: but a daughter of Juda would not abide your wickedness.
- Now therefore tell me, under what tree didst thou take them conversing together., And he answered: Under a holm tree.
- And Daniel said to him: Well hast thou also lied against thy own head: for the angel of the Lord waiteth with a sword to cut thee in two, and to destroy you.
- With that all the assembly cried out with a loud voice, and they blessed God, who saveth them that trust in him.
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