For the just children of good men were offering sacrifice secretly, and they unanimously ordered a law of justice: that the just should receive both good and evil alike, singing now the praises of the fathers.
Glossa Ordinaria
For they sacrificed secretly. The people of Israel in Egypt celebrated the Pasch at the command of the Lord, etc., up to but in the hiding of the heart they ever sacrifice to the Lord, whence: A sacrifice to God is an afflicted spirit. And elsewhere: In me, O God, are thy vows, etc. He recalls that God struck the firstborn of Egypt, where the Egyptians no longer feigned as before, but openly compelled the people of God to depart, saying: We shall all die.
English is machine-translated from the public-domain Latin (Glossa Ordinaria, Migne, Patrologia Latina 113-114, 1852; digital text from Corpus Corporum, mlat.uzh.ch), since no public-domain English translation exists. It is not a scholarly translation. Please report errors.