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For my part, I cherish affectionate memories of you. 'On my return from the country of Persia I fell seriously ill, and thought it necessary to make provision for the common security of all. (2 Maccabees 9, 21)
Maccabaeus, thinking only of the common good, agreed to all that Lysias proposed, and whatever Maccabaeus submitted to Lysias in writing concerning the Jews was granted by the king. (2 Maccabees 11, 15)
Better a common fellow who has a slave than someone who gives himself airs and has nothing to eat. (Proverbs 12, 9)
Yes, I have applied myself to all this and experienced all this to be so: that is to say, that the upright and the wise, with their activities, are in the hands of God. We do not understand either love or hate, where we are concerned, both of them are futile. And for all of us is reserved a common fate, for the upright and for the wicked, for the food and for the bad; whether we are ritually pure or not, whether we offer sacrifice or not: it is the same for the good and for the sinner, for someone who takes a vow, as for someone who fears to do so. (Ecclesiastes 9, 1)
futile. And for all of us is reserved a common fate, for the upright and for the wicked, for the good and for the bad; whether we are ritually pure or not, whether we offer sacrifice or not: it is the same for the good and for the sinner, for someone who takes a vow, as for someone who fears to do so. (Ecclesiastes 9, 2)
Blighting envy is no companion for me, for envy has nothing in common with Wisdom. (Wisdom of Solomon 6, 23)
I too, when I was born, drew in the common air, I fell on the same ground that bears us all, and crying was the first sound I made, like everyone else. (Wisdom of Solomon 7, 3)
Question your friend, for slander is very common, do not believe all you hear. (Ecclesiasticus 19, 15)
Your daughter is headstrong? Keep a sharp look-out that she does not make you the laughing-stock of your enemies, the talk of the town, the object of common gossip, and put you to public shame. (Ecclesiasticus 42, 11)
In the name of the Lord God, of him who is called the God of Israel, you amassed gold like so much tin, and made silver as common as lead. (Ecclesiasticus 47, 18)
Let the prophet who has had a dream tell it for a dream! And let him who receives a word from me, deliver my word accurately! 'What have straw and wheat in common? Yahweh demands. (Jeremiah 23, 28)
who brought Uriah back from Egypt and took him to King Jehoiakim, who had him put to the sword and his body thrown into the common burial ground. (Jeremiah 26, 23)
