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• This, then, my sons, is your father’s testament: Keep true to the Lord’s service, studying ever to carry out his will; (Tobit 14, 10)

• and hand on this charge to your children, that they should do what the law enjoins and give alms freely, that they should keep God ever in mind, offering him faithful praise at all times, and with all their strength. (Tobit 14, 11)

• No kith or kin of his but persevered in uprightness and holy living; God’s favour they had and man’s alike, well loved by all their neighbours. (Tobit 14, 17)

• Samaria, and all the country beyond Jordan as far as Jerusalem, and the land of Gessen✻ right up to the borders of Ethiopia. (Judith 1, 9)

• Leaving Assyria, he first reached the high mountains of Ange, on the left-hand side of Cilicia, scaling all their fastnesses and reducing all their garrisons. (Judith 2, 12)

• Then he broke into the city of Melothi, that resisted him stubbornly, and ravaged all the country which belonged to the sons of Tharsis, and to the Ismaelites, facing the desert, to the south of Cellon. (Judith 2, 13)

• fear struck deep at their anxious hearts, that Jerusalem and its temple might fare as other cities and temples had fared. (Judith 4, 2)

• Nay, the high priest Eliachim sent letters even further afield; the hill-folk that lived facing Esdrelon across the wide plain around Dothain, controlling the passes to the south, (Judith 4, 5)

• Such orders from Eliachim, the Lord’s high priest, the Israelites faithfully carried out. (Judith 4, 7)

• Meanwhile, in good earnest, the whole nation made appeal to the Lord, doing penance, men and women alike, with fast and prayer. (Judith 4, 8)

• Garb of sackcloth the priests wore, and bade the very infants lie prostrate before the temple gates; in sackcloth they veiled the Lord’s own altar; (Judith 4, 9)

• and so with one voice they made appeal to the Lord, the God of Israel. Were they to see their children slaves, their women-folk allotted as spoil, their cities razed, their sanctuary profaned? Were they to become the scorn of the Gentiles? (Judith 4, 10)