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but these Egyptians had received the Israelites into their midst with rejoicing, had admitted them to rights of citizenship, and then turned on them with savage ill-treatment. (Wisdom of Solomon 19, 15)
No wonder blindness fell on them, as upon the men of Sodom at Lot’s door! But in Egypt the darkness was so bewildering that a man could not find his way through the doors of his own house. (Wisdom of Solomon 19, 16)
then fire, in its turn, could not waste the frail flesh of living creatures that traversed it, nor melt that heavenly food that melted easily as ice. No means wouldst thou neglect, Lord, to magnify thy people and win them renown; never wouldst thou leave them unregarded, but always and everywhere camest to their side.✻ (Wisdom of Solomon 19, 20)
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)
There is but one God, high creator of all things; sitting on his throne to govern us, a great king, worthy of all dread; (Ecclesiasticus 1, 8)
never a nook or cranny in thy house but shall be filled with the store of its harvesting. (Ecclesiasticus 1, 21)
None that fears the Lord but honours the parents who gave him life, slave to master owes no greater service. (Ecclesiasticus 3, 8)
What is the buttress of a man’s house? A father’s blessing. What tears up the foundations of it? A mother’s curse. (Ecclesiasticus 3, 11)
No fire burns so high but water may quench it; almsgiving was ever sin’s atoning. (Ecclesiasticus 3, 33)
When first she chooses a man out, she does but make trial of his company; (Ecclesiasticus 4, 18)
Wisdom still needs a tongue to disclose it; no discernment or knowledge or shrewd counsel but waits on the apt word; how else should men be encouraged in well doing? (Ecclesiasticus 4, 29)
True answer and wise answer none can give but he who listens patiently, and learns all. (Ecclesiasticus 5, 13)
