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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)
My sons, look back on the ages that are past; was ever man yet that trusted in the Lord, and was disappointed? (Ecclesiasticus 2, 11)
Speak we now of a father’s rights; do you, sons, give good heed, and follow these counsels, if thrive you would. (Ecclesiasticus 3, 2)
Thou hast sons; train them to bear the yoke from their youth up. (Ecclesiasticus 7, 25)
Of his master’s sons a prudent servant shall yet be master. Only the fool, that is ill trained, takes punishment amiss; and a fool will never rise to greatness. (Ecclesiasticus 10, 28)
A brood of disloyal sons and worthless, how should this be the Lord’s desire? (Ecclesiasticus 15, 22)
A brood of disloyal sons, let not thy eye dwell on these with pleasure; the fear of God lacking, let not a multitude of children be thy comfort. (Ecclesiasticus 16, 1)
Israel alone is exempt, marked down as God’s patrimony. (Ecclesiasticus 17, 15)
Here is the lore, my sons, of the tongue’s use; hold fast by it, and thy own lips shall never be thy undoing, to ensnare thee in heinous wrong. (Ecclesiasticus 23, 7)
Broken, the law of the most High; her plighted troth forsaken; sons borne to a paramour, has she not thrice played the wanton? (Ecclesiasticus 23, 33)
Needs must she confront the folk assembled, nor shall those sons of hers be spared; (Ecclesiasticus 23, 34)
and his command to me was that I should find my home in Jacob, throw in my lot with Israel, take root among his chosen race. (Ecclesiasticus 24, 13)
