Löydetty 2047 Tulokset: Israel's Victory
For every loaf of bread given to the hungry, blessing shall be the reward of kindly hearts. (A renowned victory he wins, that is a bestower of gifts, and living men are the spoils of it.✻ ) (Proverbs 22, 9)
I was a king in my day, I, the Spokesman; Israel my realm, Jerusalem my capital. (Ecclesiastes 1, 12)
See now the bed whereon king Solomon lies, with sixty warriors to guard him, none braver in Israel;✻ (Song of Solomon 3, 7)
So, too, with that innocent people of Israel, that unoffending race; did she not deliver them from the nations that kept them under? (Wisdom of Solomon 10, 15)
Strange likeness between the punishment that befell their enemies,✻ who went thirsty while Israel had drink to their heart’s content, (Wisdom of Solomon 11, 5)
and the relief of their want Israel now experienced! (Wisdom of Solomon 11, 6)
For Israel, only a test of their faith; only a father’s correction; for Egypt, as from a king, stern scrutiny and stern doom. (Wisdom of Solomon 11, 11)
That the same plague of thirst which had tortured themselves should be the source of Israel’s rejoicing! Then indeed they felt the Lord’s power, then indeed they wondered at the revenge time had brought; (Wisdom of Solomon 11, 14)
Not that it was beyond thy power to give piety the mastery over godlessness by victory in battle, by some plague of ravening monsters, or by one word of doom. (Wisdom of Solomon 12, 9)
Against those earlier plagues, sorcery had hardened their hearts; Israel they recognized for God’s children only when the first-born died. (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 13)
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)
