Interea subito corruptae mentis homines acerba pestis corripuit, quae in brevi tantam eius multitudinem stravit ut ne sepeliendis quidem mortuis vivi sufficerent: sed ne morte quidem suorum nec timore mortis, hi qui supererant a morte animae qua peccando sternebantur, revocari poterant: unde non multo post acrior gentem peccatricem ultio diri sceleris secuta est.
In the mean season of a sudden a bitter plague seized upon the men of debased mind, consuming in short time such a multitude of people that the quick were not sufficient even to bury the dead: but not even their friends death, neither the fear of their own, could call the remnant back from the murrain of their soul, which brought them low through their sinful living: whereby, not long after, a greater stroke of vengeance for their abominable iniquity ensued upon the sinful nation.
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