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Of what should befall that night, our fathers had good warning; confidence in thy sworn protection should keep them unafraid. (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 6)
In secret they offered their sacrifice, children of a nobler race, all set apart; with one accord they ratified the divine covenant, which bound them to share the same blessings and the same perils; singing for prelude their ancestral hymns of praise. (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 9)
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)
True friendship, sure protection and rare treasure found; (Ecclesiasticus 6, 14)
In time, those fetters of hers shall prove a strong protection, a sure support, that halter of hers a badge of honour about thy neck; (Ecclesiasticus 6, 30)
At toil repine not; the farmer’s trade is of divine appointment. (Ecclesiasticus 7, 16)
granting prosperity where he will; no scribe bears office but has divine authority stamped on his brow. (Ecclesiasticus 10, 5)
Let clansmen honour a chieftain’s rank; it is humble fear wins the divine regard. (Ecclesiasticus 10, 24)
and gave him, too, earth to be his burying-place, for all the divine power that clothed him; (Ecclesiasticus 17, 2)
Palisade set on high ground, with no better protection against the wind’s fury than cheap rubble, is but of short endurance; (Ecclesiasticus 22, 21)
Lord, that gavest my life and art the divine ruler of it, let them not have me at their mercy; (Ecclesiasticus 23, 4)
Warning she gives to after ages that God’s fear is best, nor sweeter lot is any than the divine law well observed. (Ecclesiasticus 23, 37)
