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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.