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|Who ascended and descended on the ladder of Jacob, ||Gen. xxviii. |- |Who didst wrestle with Jacob, and touch him on the thigh, ||Gen. xxxii. |- |Who didst deliver Jacob from all evils, ||Gen. xlviii. |- |Who, passing over the houses of the Israelites, didst strike the first-born of the Egyptians, ||Exod. xii. |- |Who leddest the Israelites out of Egypt by the Red Sea and the desert into the land of promise, ||Exod. xiv. &c. |- |Who gavest the law of God to Moses, ||Acts vii. |- |Who didst withstand Balaam with his ass, as he was going to curse the Israelites, ||Num. xxii. |- |Prince of the host of the Lord, who wast sent to the aid of Josue, ||Jos. v. |- |Who, for the sin of David, didst strike seventy thousand men of the people with pestilence, ||2 Kings xxiv. |- |Who broughtest food to Daniel into the den of lions, || Dan. xiv. |- |Who in one night didst slay, in the camp of the Assyrians, a hundred and eighty-five thousand, ||4 Kings xix. || Pray for us. |- |Who severely punished Heliodorus when he would have plundered the treasures of the temple, ||2 Mach. iii. |- |Who didst encourage Joseph, when afraid to marry the Virgin Mary, ||Matt. i. |- |Who didst announce the birth of Christ to the shepherds, ||Luke ii. |- |Who sang with joy at our Saviour’s birth, Glory to God, and peace to men, ||Ibid. |- |Who didst forewarn Joseph to fly into Egypt with the child Jesus and his mother. ||Matt. ii. |- |Who ministered to Christ in the desert, when he had put the tempter to flight, ||Matt. iv. |- |Who didst comfort Christ in his agony, ||Luke. xxii. |- |Who didst roll back the stone from the sepulchre of Christ, ||Matt, xxviii. |- |Who, sitting in white at the sepulchre of Christ, didst proclaim to the women that Christ was risen, ||John xx. |}