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Seven brothers there were, that lay under arrest, and their mother with them; these too were tortured at the king’s command, to see if whip and thong would not make them eat swine’s flesh, for all their scruples. (2 Maccabees 7, 1)
Bred worms at last in that sinful body, and he lived yet, though miserably enough, to see his own flesh rot away, till his own men could not bear the foul stench of him; (2 Maccabees 9, 9)
A kindly man is the friend of his own well-being; cruelty will not spare its own flesh and blood. (Proverbs 11, 17)
Here is one that works alone, partner nor son nor brother to aid him, yet still works on, never content with his bright hoard, never asking, as he toils and stints himself, who shall gain by it. Frustration and lost labour, here too. (Ecclesiastes 4, 8)
There was a small city once, with few men to hold it; and there was a great king that marched out against it, raised a mound and ringed it with siege-works, till it was beleaguered on every side. (Ecclesiastes 9, 14)
What of myself? Was not Solomon a mortal man like the rest of you, come down from that first man that was a thing of clay?✻ I, too, was flesh and blood; ten months I lay a-fashioning in my mother’s womb; (Wisdom of Solomon 7, 1)
Murderers that would not spare their own children, that feasted on human flesh, human entrails and blood, they must have no share in thy covenant. (Wisdom of Solomon 12, 5)
What folly it argues in man’s nature, this ignorance of God! So much good seen, and he, who is existent Good,✻ not known! Should they not learn to recognise the Artificer by the contemplation of his works? (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 1)
Despise we not the potter’s toil, that works the pliant earth between his fingers, and makes a cup here, a dish there for our use. Serve they noble ends or base, all alike come from the same clay, and what employment each of them shall find, it is the potter’s right to determine. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 7)
But no, he never looks forward to the day when he will be past work; how short life is, he recks not; he must vie with goldsmith and silversmith, he must be even with his neighbour that works in bronze; in puppet-making✻ all his hope lies of winning fame. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 9)
then fire, in its turn, could not waste the frail flesh of living creatures that traversed it, nor melt that heavenly food that melted easily as ice. No means wouldst thou neglect, Lord, to magnify thy people and win them renown; never wouldst thou leave them unregarded, but always and everywhere camest to their side.✻ (Wisdom of Solomon 19, 20)
and so curb thy unruly spirits; for sinful flesh, fire and worm. (Ecclesiasticus 7, 19)
