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Here they had brought priestly vestments, and offering of first-fruits and tithes; here Nazirites were gathered, ripe and ready for the payment of their vows. (1 Maccabees 3, 49)
To him came certain Israelites, enemies of the law and of religion, with Alcimus at their head, a man who coveted the high-priestly office. (1 Maccabees 7, 5)
Written in the hundred and eighty-eighth year.The common folk of Jerusalem and Judaea,✻ their council of elders, and I, Judas, to Aristobulus, of the anointed priestly race, that was master of king Ptolemy, and to the Jews of Egypt, greeting and health. (2 Maccabees 1, 10)
Access thus gained to the king’s person, Menelaus was careful to flatter his self-conceit; then, outbidding Jason by three hundred talents of silver, diverted the high-priestly succession to himself. (2 Maccabees 4, 24)
I have seen godless men go peacefully to the grave, that had lived their lives out in haunts of holiness, and won the name of good men from their fellow citizens; here, too, is frustration.✻ (Ecclesiastes 8, 10)
The secret purposes of God they might not fathom; how should they foresee that holiness is requited, how should they pass true award on a blameless life? (Wisdom of Solomon 2, 22)
a merry heart is the true life of man, is an unfailing store of holiness; length of years is measured by rejoicing. (Ecclesiasticus 30, 23)
Thy own self befriend, doing God’s will with endurance, and giving all thy heart to the holiness he enjoins, and banish thy sad thoughts; (Ecclesiasticus 30, 24)
Consult, if thou wilt,✻ unbeliever about holiness, knave about justice, woman about her rival, dastard about war, merchant about value, buyer about price, cynic about gratitude, (Ecclesiasticus 37, 12)
The gold finishing, too, of his mitre, engraved with the legend, Holiness; so proud an adornment, so noble a work of art, such a lure for men’s eyes in its ordered beauty! (Ecclesiasticus 45, 14)
doom, by which the Lord of hosts will be exalted, just award, by which the God of holiness will shew holier yet! (Isaiah 5, 16)
Though a tenth of their number remain, it is but empty show,✻ like leafage of terebinth or oak that needs pruning; only a remnant of it will be left, the true stock of holiness. (Isaiah 6, 13)
