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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)
Wisdom it is that imparts to us all our knowledge, all our powers of discernment; hold her fast, and she will set thee on a pinnacle of renown; (Ecclesiasticus 1, 24)
My son, if on wisdom thy heart is set, keep the commandments, and God will grant thy wish; (Ecclesiasticus 1, 33)
trust her, and she will be thy inheritance, settled on the heirs of thy body. (Ecclesiasticus 4, 17)
Firm let thy feet be set on the path the Lord has chosen for thee; be true to thy own thought and to the knowledge thou hast, and ever let the counsels of peace and justice guide thee on thy way. (Ecclesiasticus 5, 12)
Much give, much take, set thy soul at ease; (Ecclesiasticus 14, 16)
life and death, blessing and curse, man finds set before him, and the gift given thee shall be the choice thou makest; (Ecclesiasticus 15, 18)
Not on such lives as these set thy hopes, little regard have thou for such doings as theirs; (Ecclesiasticus 16, 2)
set forth in words the greatness of his power, or go further yet, and proclaim his mercies? (Ecclesiasticus 18, 4)
Between rise and set of sun the face of things alters; swiftly God changes all; (Ecclesiasticus 18, 26)
Folly sets foot over every threshold, where the experienced mind stands, as in a royal presence, abashed; (Ecclesiasticus 21, 25)
Palisade set on high ground, with no better protection against the wind’s fury than cheap rubble, is but of short endurance; (Ecclesiasticus 22, 21)
