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So much, reader, for thy warning; and now go we back to our history. (2 Maccabees 6, 17)
turn we to his son, Antiochus Eupator, that was born of a very ill father;✻ record we in brief the history of his reign, and the hazards of war that went with it. (2 Maccabees 10, 10)
Such was the history of Nicanor; and since that time the city has been in Jewish possession. Here, then, I will make an end of writing; (2 Maccabees 15, 38)
Nothing that has been, but lasts on still; nothing that will be, but has been already; he is ever repeating the history of the past. (Ecclesiastes 3, 15)
And when the nations went their several ways,✻ banded in a single conspiracy of wickedness, of one man’s innocence she still took note; Abraham must be kept irreproachable in God’s service, and steeled against pity for his own child. (Wisdom of Solomon 10, 5)
One hour of misery, how it can efface in the memory long years of ease! Only a man’s death-bed brings the full history of his fortunes to light. (Ecclesiasticus 11, 29)
What greatness was Abraham’s, to be the father of so many nations! Where shall we find another that can boast he kept the law of the most High as Abraham kept it? He, too, entered into a covenant with God, (Ecclesiasticus 44, 20)
Here is a message to the race of Jacob from the Lord, that was Abraham’s deliverer: No longer shall Jacob be disappointed, no longer put to the blush. (Isaiah 29, 22)
But thou, Israel, my servant, thou, Jacob, on whom my choice has fallen, art sprung from that Abraham, who was my friend; (Isaiah 41, 8)
What other is like me? Let him proclaim it, tell us of it; let him expound the history of the past, ever since I established the primal race of man; then let him make known the future that is yet to come.✻ (Isaiah 44, 7)
of Abraham that begot you, of Sara that was your mother; he was a childless man when I called him, and blessed him, and granted him a posterity. (Isaiah 51, 2)
Yet, who is our father, Lord, if not thou? Let Abraham disown us, Israel disclaim his own blood, we are thy sons still; is it not thy boast of old, thou hast paid a price for us? (Isaiah 63, 16)
