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That done, he must find a suitable room to house it, and there lets it into the wall, making it fast with iron clamps. (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 15)
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)
Here were men that had skill to devise melodies, to make songs and set them down in writing. (Ecclesiasticus 44, 5)
Let me tell you, then, what I mean to do to this vineyard of mine. I mean to rob it of its hedge, so that all can plunder it, to break down its wall, so that it will be trodden under foot. (Isaiah 5, 5)
to archer, to chariot, to horseman, Elam sends out her challenge, bids shield come down from its place on the wall. (Isaiah 22, 6)
How many breaches, already, in the wall of David’s city! Water you must bring in from the lower pool; (Isaiah 22, 9)
Stronghold thou art of the poor, stronghold of the helpless in their affliction, refuge from the storm, shade in the noonday sun; against that wall the rage of tyrants blusters in vain. (Isaiah 25, 4)
But in the land of Juda, when that day comes, what shall their song be? Sion is ours, an impregnable fortress; divine protection it has for wall and breast-work; (Isaiah 26, 1)
Sudden and swift shall be your punishment, as the crash of a high wall that has long gaped ruinously, long been anxiously watched. (Isaiah 30, 13)
At this Ezechias turned his face towards the wall, and prayed to the Lord thus: (Isaiah 38, 2)
Blind men that grope along a wall, hands, not eyes, to shew the way, stumble we at noonday as though benighted; we are dead men in a world of shadows. (Isaiah 59, 10)
All the tribes the northern kings rule I mean to muster, the Lord says; hither they will march, and each will set up his throne where gate of Jerusalem stands, or encircling wall, or fortified city of Juda. (Jeremiah 1, 15)
