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Him a posterity of famous sons awaited,✻ men of tender conscience, that had the good word of all their fellows. (Ecclesiasticus 44, 27)
The gold finishing, too, of his mitre, engraved with the legend, Holiness; so proud an adornment, so noble a work of art, such a lure for men’s eyes in its ordered beauty! (Ecclesiasticus 45, 14)
he stood firm while the people shrank away; a loyal and a willing heart that made amends for Israel. (Ecclesiasticus 45, 29)
For his reward, he received assurance of the divine favour; command he should have of sanctuary and of people both, and the high priesthood that was his should descend to his heirs for ever. (Ecclesiasticus 45, 30)
David the son of Jesse, of Juda’s tribe, should bequeath to his children a legacy of kingship …… with wise hearts endowing us, to preserve justice among his people, and keep safe the blessings he has given to it; and this pre-eminence over his people he has settled on them in perpetuity.✻ (Ecclesiasticus 45, 31)
On Caleb, too, the Lord bestowed such vigour, that in his old age he was a warrior still, and made his way up into the hill-country, where his descendants held their lands after him; (Ecclesiasticus 46, 11)
There must be an end at last to his life, and to the age he lived in; but first he would make profession, with the Lord and the new-anointed king for his witnesses, bribe he had never taken from any living man, though it were but a gift of shoe-leather; and none might gainsay him.✻ (Ecclesiasticus 46, 22)
still with all his heart he praised the Master he loved so well, the God who had created him and endowed him with strength to meet his enemies. (Ecclesiasticus 47, 10)
feast-days should be kept with splendour, times and seasons duly observed, all his life long; morning after morning the Lord’s holy name should be praised, God should receive his full tribute of worship. (Ecclesiasticus 47, 12)
and thus thy renown was tarnished with the gendering of a breed unhallowed. So it was that vengeance fell upon thy children, that must rue thy folly in after times; (Ecclesiasticus 47, 22)
Ah, blessed souls that saw thee, and were honoured with thy friendship! (Ecclesiasticus 48, 11)
Yet the nation for whom all this was done would not amend, nor leave its sinning, until all the inhabitants of the land were driven out, and scattered through the world; (Ecclesiasticus 48, 16)
