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that can plan out in his heart all wisdom’s twists and turns, fathom her secrets! Like a spy he follows her, and lingers in her tracks, (Ecclesiasticus 14, 23)
Long life and good discernment are the bread this mother will provide for him, truth the refreshing draught she will give him to drink. She will take firm hold of him, so that he never wavers, (Ecclesiasticus 15, 3)
restrain him, so that he is never disgraced. She will raise him to high repute among his neighbours; (Ecclesiasticus 15, 4)
Nay, she is beyond the deceiver’s ken; true hearts alone are her company, and these shall profit by it till they are fit for God’s scrutiny. (Ecclesiasticus 15, 8)
Praise is but praise deformed when it is uttered by the lips of a sinner; (Ecclesiasticus 15, 9)
No foul misdeed there is but God hates it; there is no loving it and fearing him. (Ecclesiasticus 15, 13)
of fire breaking out where sinners were met in company, fires of vengeance to consume a disobedient race. (Ecclesiasticus 16, 7)
destroying a whole nation without pity, for the sinfulness that defied him? (Ecclesiasticus 16, 10)
And what of those six hundred thousand that marched out into the desert, men of stubborn heart? Stiff-necked if he had been like the others, Caleb himself should not have had God’s pardon.✻ (Ecclesiasticus 16, 11)
His to pity, his to punish; intercession avails with him, but in full flood comes his vengeance; (Ecclesiasticus 16, 12)
No generous act but shall win God’s consideration; he weighs each man’s merits, knows how each passed his time on earth. (Ecclesiasticus 16, 15)
all these have a heart, though it be a heart void of reason,✻ and there is no heart but its secrets are known to him. (Ecclesiasticus 16, 20)
