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They live under sentence of death; and when death comes, of nothing will they be aware any longer; no reward can they receive, now that every trace of them has vanished away; (Ecclesiastes 9, 5)
A shadow’s shadow, he, the Spokesman, tells us, a world of shadows! (Ecclesiastes 12, 8)
Hold me close to thy heart, close as locket or bracelet fits; not death itself is so strong as love, not the grave itself cruel as love unrequited; the torch that lights it is a blaze of fire. (Song of Solomon 8, 6)
Death for its goal, is not life’s aim missed? Labours he well, that labours to bring doom about his ears? (Wisdom of Solomon 1, 12)
Death was never of God’s fashioning; not for his pleasure does life cease to be; (Wisdom of Solomon 1, 13)
It is the wicked that have brought death on themselves, by word and deed of their own; court death, and melt away in its embrace, keep tryst with it, and lay claim to its partnership. (Wisdom of Solomon 1, 16)
Reason they offer, yet reason all amiss. Their hearts tell them, So brief our time here, so full of discomfort, and death brings no remedy! Never a man yet made good his title to have come back from the grave! (Wisdom of Solomon 2, 1)
Only a passing shadow, this life of ours, and from its end there is no returning; the doom is sealed, and there is no acquittal. (Wisdom of Solomon 2, 5)
Sentenced let him be to a shameful death; by his own way of it, he shall find deliverance.✻ (Wisdom of Solomon 2, 20)
but, since the devil’s envy brought death into the world, (Wisdom of Solomon 2, 24)
But the souls of the just are in God’s hands, and no torment, in death itself, has power to reach them. (Wisdom of Solomon 3, 1)
in life how eagerly imitated, in death how long regretted, in eternity how crowned with triumph, the conquest gained in fields of honourable striving! (Wisdom of Solomon 4, 2)
