Judith — Chapter 13

The fasting of one woman ouerthrew an innumerable host of drunkards. S. Amb. li. de ieiunio cap. Elia. c. 9.

If Bethulia had been taken, Ierusalem also had been in extreme danger: for which cause God had made more special promise to Dauid and others. Isaia 37. 38. &c.

aad fayd: One Hebrew woman hath made confufion in the houfe of King Nabuchedonofor:for behold-Holofernes lyeth vpon the ground and his head is not vpon him.17. Which when the Princes of the power of the Affyrians had heard , they al rene their garments , & intolerable feare and dread fel vpon them , and their minds were troubled excce- dingly. 18, And there was made an incomparable cric in the middcs of their campe,

ND Iudith-fayd to al the people : 4 hang ye this head vpon. out wals ; 2. and it ihal be, when the funne thal rife , let euerie manstake his armour, 8& yflue ye forth witn violence , not that you goe downe — beneath , buras it were inu ading violently. 3. Then the watchmen mutt of neceffitie runze to tel. 4. Aud when the captayies of them i Holofernes, and thalfind him headles rowled in bloud , feare wiktal vpon them. 5. And when you thal know that they fly , goe after thern fecurely , becaufe oar Lord wildeftroy them vider your fect. 6. Then (2) Achior feeing the power, that God of Ifrael wrought, forfaking the rite of gentilitie, belicued God , andcircumcifed the fle(h of his pre- puce, and was ioyned to the people of Iftacl, and al thefucceflion ot his kinred vnteil this prefent day.7.And immediatly as day bra ke,they hong. the head of Holoternes vpon the wals , & euerie man took his. armcur, & they went forth with great noy fe & thouting, 8. Whica the watch- menfeeieg , ranne tothe rabernacie ot Holoternes, 9. Moreoner they that were inthe tabernacle comming, and before the dore of the taber= nacle making anoy(e to rayfe him, thcy endcauioured by att to difquier him, thar Holoferncs might awake not by them rsyanghim, barby them making a noyfe, 10. Forno man durit by knecking ,, or entritis, to open the Chamber of the chicte of the Aflyrians.’11. Bur whe: his Dukes and tribunes were come, and ai the chiete of the aimic of rite Dddddd Kine 917 9 called came, and Tudith {aid to him: The ftteftimonie , that he reueageth . pe) fF the head of al the vofaizhtul this tthou maylt proue thatit is fo , loe the he contempt of his pride contem red the tee death, fayiag: When the people of co be pearfed. with a fword. being in anguiin tor teare, his (oule was fore troubled. 30. But trethed , and fel downe at her fect, ffed artthou of thy God in eucrie ta~ enation, which thaLheare thy name, don the wal, 6.Achior is circumcifed, 7. The 1 fraclites. Heare me brethren, rayle vp their Prince to bat- hal runne to the tabernacle ot . (a) Achior an Anmmionire (eh 5. ¥.5.) being truly: conuerted and belieuing in God, was ad- mitted inte the Church, notwithftan- ding thar Ante monites and Moabrtes were excluded.by Nam. Dens, D4, ba. whichis thertore encnt only of che fe that perhit in4 psnitent anu 1 a 918 IvDITH. King of the Affyrians , they faid tothechamberlayns: 12, Goe in, .and awake him , becau’e the mice yfluing out ct their holes, haue prefumed to prouoke vs to battel, 13, Then Vagao entring into his chamber , {tood before she cortine, & made a clapping with his hands: “for he thought that he tlept with Judith, 14, But when with the fente of his eares he perceiued no motion of perfon lying , he came neer to the cortine , and lifting it vp , and feeing the bodie without the head of Ho- lofernes welrredin his bloud lye vpon the ground , cried out in a lowd voyce with weeping, , and rent his garments. 15. And going into the ta- bernacleof Iudith , he found her not , and he lept forth to the people,