Wisdom 12:8
Yet even those thou sparedst as men, and didst send wasps, forerunners of thy host, to destroy them by little and little.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Sed et his tamquam hominibus pepercisti, et misisti antecessores exercitus tui vespas, ut illos paulatim exterminarent.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἀλλὰ καὶ τούτων ὡς ἀνθρώπων ἐφείσω, ἀπέστειλάς τε προδρόμους τοῦ στρατοπέδου σου σφῆκας, ἵνα αὐτοὺς κατὰ βραχὺ ἐξολεθρεύσωσιν·
Haydock's commentary
Wasps. These were the auxiliaries of the Hebrews, Deuteronomy vii. 20. St. James saved Nisibis from the Persian army, by praying for gnats to descend. (Theod.[Theodoret?] Philot. i.)
The inhabitants of Belgrade incensed bees, by fire and smoke, to attack the troops of Amurath. (Bonf. iv. dec. 3.)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.