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Not by strength of body, not by prowess in arms, he won the victory;✻ by persuasion he disarmed resistance, calling to mind the sworn covenant of our race. (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 22)
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)
Be true to thy covenant with God; its words to thy own ears repeat; to that, and thy enjoined duty, inure thyself. (Ecclesiasticus 11, 21)
all but a few of his doings are hidden away. His acts of retribution✻who can understand, or who can bear? Far, far removed is that covenant of his from some men’s thoughts; and yet in the end all shall undergo his scrutiny.✻ (Ecclesiasticus 16, 22)
and so he made a covenant with them which should last for ever; claim and award of his he would make known to them. (Ecclesiasticus 17, 10)
Sin they as they will, his covenant is still on record; no misdeed of theirs but he is the witness of it. (Ecclesiasticus 17, 17)
What things are these I write of? What but the life-giving book that is the covenant of the most High, and the revelation of all truth? (Ecclesiasticus 24, 32)
the covenant of the most High remember, thy neighbour’s slip forget. (Ecclesiasticus 28, 9)
will make known to all the tradition of teaching he has received, and take pride in that law which is the Lord’s covenant with man. (Ecclesiasticus 39, 11)
… concerning the faithfulness of God, and his covenant; concerning thy sitting over meat … Ashamed be thou of belittling the gift received, (Ecclesiasticus 41, 24)
Such are, the law of the most High and his covenant; and right award, that gives the godless his due; (Ecclesiasticus 42, 2)
with him God’s covenant was made, never again should all living things be drowned together. (Ecclesiasticus 44, 19)
