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Who but she, when the world was a-drowning for Cain’s fault,✻ gave it a second term of life, steering, on a paltry raft, one innocent man to safety? (Wisdom of Solomon 10, 4)
A weak, foolish thing, and for health he asks it; dead, and he will have life of it; shiftless, and he will have aid of it. (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 18)
So careful art thou that the gifts thy wisdom affords us should not go unused; man ventures his life on a few planks, and the frail barque gives him safe conduct across the waves. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 5)
And what marvel? At the beginning of all, when the giants perished in their pride, was not such a barque the refuge of all the world’s hopes? Yet thy hand was at the helm, and the seed of life was saved for posterity. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 6)
For indeed they were no part of man’s life from the first, nor shall be at the last; (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 13)
Peace, while there is no respect for life, or for wedlock undefiled; always the murderous ambush, the jealous pangs of a husband betrayed! (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 24)
But no, he never looks forward to the day when he will be past work; how short life is, he recks not; he must vie with goldsmith and silversmith, he must be even with his neighbour that works in bronze; in puppet-making✻ all his hope lies of winning fame. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 9)
O heart of dust, O ambition worthless as the sand, life than his own clay more despicable! (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 10)
Existence, for him, only a toy to be played with; our life here, only a market-place, where a man must needs get his living by fair means or foul! (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 12)
Lord of life as of death, thou canst bring us down to the grave and back from the grave; (Wisdom of Solomon 16, 13)
thine is not the fatal stroke man deals in spite, that banishes life beyond recall, imprisons the soul for ever. (Wisdom of Solomon 16, 14)
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)
