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Because as servants of his kingdom you did not rule rightly, nor keep the law, nor walk according to the purpose of God, (Wisdom of Solomon 6, 4)
and love of her is the keeping of her laws, and giving heed to her laws is assurance of immortality, (Wisdom of Solomon 6, 18)
For I am thy slave and the son of thy maidservant, a man who is weak and short-lived, with little understanding of judgment and laws; (Wisdom of Solomon 9, 5)
Then the ungodly custom, grown strong with time, was kept as a law, and at the command of monarchs graven images were worshiped. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 16)
He is mortal, and what he makes with lawless hands is dead, for he is better than the objects he worships, since he has life, but they never have. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 17)
they were troubled for a little while as a warning, and received a token of deliverance to remind them of thy law's command. (Wisdom of Solomon 16, 6)
For when lawless men supposed that they held the holy nation in their power, they themselves lay as captives of darkness and prisoners of long night, shut in under their roofs, exiles from eternal providence. (Wisdom of Solomon 17, 2)
For their enemies deserved to be deprived of light and imprisoned in darkness, those who had kept thy sons imprisoned, through whom the imperishable light of the law was to be given to the world. (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 4)
For in secret the holy children of good men offered sacrifices, and with one accord agreed to the divine law, that the saints would share alike the same things, both blessings and dangers; and already they were singing the praises of the fathers. (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 9)
Whereas many great teachings have been given to us through the law and the prophets and the others that followed them, on account of which we should praise Israel for instruction and wisdom; and since it is necessary not only that the readers themselves should acquire understanding but also that those who love learning should be able to help the outsiders by both speaking and writing, my grandfather Jesus, after devoting himself especially to the reading of the law and the prophets and the other books of our fathers, and after acquiring considerable proficiency in them, was himself also led to write something pertaining to instruction and wisdom, in order that, by becoming conversant with this also, those who love learning should make even greater progress in living according to the law. (Ecclesiasticus 1, 1)
You are urged therefore to read with good will and attention, and to be indulgent in cases where, despite out diligent labor in translating, we may seem to have rendered some phrases imperfectly. For what was originally expressed in Hebrew does not have exactly the same sense when translated into another language. Not only this work, but even the law itself, the prophecies, and the rest of the books differ not a little as originally expressed. (Ecclesiasticus 1, 15)
When I came to Egypt in the thirty-eighth year of the reign of Euergetes and stayed for some time, I found opportunity for no little instruction. It seemed highly necessary that I should myself devote some pains and labor to the translation of the following book, using in that period of time great watchfulness and skill in order to complete and publish the book for those living abroad who wished to gain learning, being prepared in character to live according to the law. (Ecclesiasticus 1, 27)
