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Time passed, and he gave his people great increase of numbers, till it outmatched its rivals. (Psalms 104, 24)
he blesses them, so that their numbers increase beyond measure, and to their cattle grants increase. (Psalms 106, 38)
Nay, said Judas, nothing forbids great numbers should be at the mercy of small; what matter makes it to the God of heaven, few be his soldiers or many when he grants deliverance? (1 Maccabees 3, 18)
But Judas cried to his fellows, What, would you be daunted by the numbers of them? Would you give ground before their attack? (1 Maccabees 4, 8)
At the sight of their great numbers, this was Judas’ prayer: Blessed art thou, Saviour of Israel, who didst make use of thy servant David, a giant’s onset to overthrow! Victory thou didst give, over an invading army, to Saul’s son Jonathan and the squire that bore him company! (1 Maccabees 4, 30)
whose numbers and their rage increasing, he was fain to put some three thousand men under arms, with one Tyrannus at their head, that was far gone in years, and no less in folly. Lysimachus it was that first resorted to violence; (2 Maccabees 4, 40)
Nothing but wine to take, nothing but water, thy health forbids; vary thy drinking,✻ and thou shalt find content. So it is with reading; if the book be too nicely polished at every point, it grows wearisome. So here we will have done with it. (2 Maccabees 15, 40)
PREFACE: Many are the important truths conveyed to us by the law, by the prophets and by those other writers who have followed them. Israel must be given credit for its own philosophical tradition, suited not only to instruct those who talk its language, but to reach, in spoken or written form, the outside world too, and bring it great enlightenment. No wonder if my own grandfather, Jesus, who had devoted himself to the careful study of the law, the prophets, and our other ancestral records, had a mind to put something in writing himself that should bear on this philosophical tradition, to claim the attention of eager students who had already mastered it, and to encourage their observance of the law. I must beg its readers to come well-disposed to their task, and to follow me closely, making allowances for me wherever I seem to have failed in the right marshalling of words, as I pass on wisdom at second hand. Hebrew words lose their force when they are translated into another language; moreover, when the Hebrews read out the law, the prophets, and the other books among themselves, they read them out in a greatly different form. It was in my thirty-eighth year,✻ in the reign of Euergetes, that I went to Egypt and spent some time there. When I found writings preserved there which were of high doctrinal value, it seemed to me right and fitting that I, too, should be at some pains; I would set about translating this book. Learning I gave to the task and long labour, and so brought it to an end; and so I offer the book to all who are ready to apply their minds to it, and learn how a man must frame his conduct if he would live by the divine law. (Ecclesiasticus 1, 0)
What things are these I write of? What but the life-giving book that is the covenant of the most High, and the revelation of all truth? (Ecclesiasticus 24, 32)
God took an oath that this should be the father of a renowned posterity; their numbers should rival the dust on the ground, (Ecclesiasticus 44, 22)
The lessons of discernment and of true knowledge in this book contained were written down by Jesus, the son of Sirach, of Jerusalem; his heart ever a fountain of true wisdom. (Ecclesiasticus 50, 29)
What is revelation to you, but a sealed book, offered as vainly to scholar that finds it sealed, (Isaiah 29, 11)
