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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)
have we waited for thee to no purpose? Shall thy prophets be proved false? Listen to thy servants’ plea, (Ecclesiasticus 36, 18)
But the wise man will be learning the lore of former times; the prophets will be his study. (Ecclesiasticus 39, 1)
Here were men that had power and bore rule, men that excelled in strength, or in the wisdom that dowered them; prophets that worthily upheld the name of prophecy, (Ecclesiasticus 44, 3)
Next to Moses in the line of prophets comes Josue the son of Nave, that fought so well. With him, name and renown are one; (Ecclesiasticus 46, 1)
Among prophets, Nathan was the next to arise, and it was then the reign of David began. (Ecclesiasticus 47, 1)
kings thou shouldst anoint, to be the redressers of wrong, and prophets to come after thee; (Ecclesiasticus 48, 8)
May life spring from the bones of the twelve prophets, where they lie buried; men that put heart into the sons of Jacob, and by trusting in God’s power won deliverance. (Ecclesiasticus 49, 12)
So deep a lethargy the Lord instils, blinding the prophets that should be your eyes, muffling with a veil the wise heads that should see visions for you. (Isaiah 29, 10)
In vain I have smitten them, all those sons of yours; still you turned your swords against the prophets, bloodthirsty as lions. (Jeremiah 2, 30)
the prophets did but waste breath, no word of revelation made to them; on their own heads be it! (Jeremiah 5, 13)
here are prophets that utter a lying message, priests that clap their hands in applause, and this people of mine is well content. And what shift will you make when the end comes? (Jeremiah 5, 31)
