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• Now turn we to one Alcimus, that had been high priest formerly, but had wilfully incurred defilement in the days when folk began consorting with the Gentiles.✻ Little hope was left him, he should live to present himself at the altar again; (2 Maccabees 14, 3)

• But the Jews gainsaid him; for there were Jews that fought, unwillingly enough, under his orders. What, said they, wouldst thou fight beast-fashion, without mercy? This holy day respect thou needs must, in his honour that is God all-seeing. (2 Maccabees 15, 2)

• And for his men he had the same encouragement; let them never be daunted by the onslaught of the heathen, but rather bethink them of heaven’s mercies in time past, and look to God Omnipotent for victory. (2 Maccabees 15, 8)

• to the confusion of yonder blasphemers that levy war on thy holy people! And so he brought his prayer to an end. (2 Maccabees 15, 24)

• if it has been done workmanly, and in historian’s fashion, none better pleased than I; if it is of little merit, I must be humoured none the less.✻ (2 Maccabees 15, 39)

• only let them be thy own, let there be no commerce between thyself and strangers. (Proverbs 5, 17)

• yet in summer hours, when the harvest is a-gathering, she ever lays up food for her own nourishment. (Proverbs 6, 8)

• no mercy for him, when the day of reckoning comes, from the anger of a jealous husband (Proverbs 6, 34)

• Wilt thou gather in harvest time, a son well schooled? Or sleep the summer round, to thy father’s great shame? (Proverbs 10, 5)

• mercy breeds life, evil ambitions death. (Proverbs 11, 19)

• A kindly man wins the Lord’s favour, a schemer is his enemy. (Proverbs 12, 2)

• The schemer’s thoughts dwell ever on treachery; for peace be all thy plotting, if thou wouldst have a contented heart. (Proverbs 12, 20)