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• Rulers were the ones who ordered that statues should be worshipped: people who could not honour them in person, because they lived too far away, would have a portrait made of their distant countenance, to have an image that they could see of the king whom they honoured; meaning, by such zeal, to flatter the absent as if he were present. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 17)

• One and the same punishment had struck slave and master alike, and now commoner and king had the same sufferings to endure. (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 11)

• Do not ask the Lord for the highest place, or the king for a seat of honour. (Ecclesiasticus 7, 4)

• Do not parade your uprightness before the Lord, or your wisdom before the king. (Ecclesiasticus 7, 5)

• An undisciplined king will be the ruin of his people, a city owes its prosperity to the intelligence of its leading men. (Ecclesiasticus 10, 3)

• A long illness makes a fool of the doctor; a king today is a corpse tomorrow. (Ecclesiasticus 10, 10)

• Over each nation he has set a governor, but Israel is the Lord's own portion. (Ecclesiasticus 17, 17)

• Then the Creator of all things instructed me and he who created me fixed a place for my tent. He said, "Pitch your tent in Jacob, make Israel your inheritance." (Ecclesiasticus 24, 8)

• Take pity, Lord, on the people called by your name, on Israel whom you have made your first-born. (Ecclesiasticus 36, 11)

• Human life lasts a number of days, but the days of Israel are beyond counting. (Ecclesiasticus 37, 25)

• Healing itself comes from the Most High, like a gift received from a king. (Ecclesiasticus 38, 2)

• he gave him the commandments face to face, the law of life and knowledge, to teach Jacob his ordinances and Israel his decrees. He raised up Aaron, a holy man like Moses, his brother, of the tribe of Levi. (Ecclesiasticus 45, 6)