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• Meanwhile, Simon rebuilt Adiada in the Sephela and fortified it; bolt and bar it should have thenceforward. (1 Maccabees 12, 38)

• The year following, what must Demetrius do but muster his army and betake himself to Media, where he would raise levies for the war against Tryphon? (1 Maccabees 14, 1)

• Their ruler he should be, and guardian of their temple; appoint officer and magistrate, master of ordnance and captain of garrison, (1 Maccabees 14, 42)

• keep her at thy side, thy guardian; cherish her, thy preserver. (Proverbs 4, 6)

• Thy lips a line of scarlet, guardians of that sweet utterance; thy cheeks shew through their veil rosy as a halved pomegranate. (Song of Solomon 4, 3)

• she, the glow that radiates from eternal light, she, the untarnished mirror of God’s majesty, she, the faithful image of his goodness. (Wisdom of Solomon 7, 26)

• Did she not restore to men ill-used the just reward of their labours? She, too, led them out on their miraculous journey, affording them shelter by day and starry radiance at night. (Wisdom of Solomon 10, 17)

• only now and again a blaze shone out, not of their kindling, terrible to behold; and fear of this unseen radiance lent fresh horror to the sights it shewed.✻ (Wisdom of Solomon 17, 6)

• Robe is none shall do thee more honour, crown is none shall rest more radiant on thy brow. (Ecclesiasticus 6, 32)

• Thus it is that the physician cures our pain, and the apothecary makes, not only perfumes to charm the sense, but unguents remedial; so inexhaustible is God’s creation, (Ecclesiasticus 38, 7)

• cresset of a watch-fire that lights up the high vault of heaven with its radiant glow. (Ecclesiasticus 43, 9)

• Yoke that fixed the burden, shaft that galled the shoulder, rod of the tyrant, all lie broken now, as they did long ago, when Madian fell. (Isaiah 9, 4)