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What greatness was Abraham’s, to be the father of so many nations! Where shall we find another that can boast he kept the law of the most High as Abraham kept it? He, too, entered into a covenant with God, (Ecclesiasticus 44, 20)
God took an oath that this should be the father of a renowned posterity; their numbers should rival the dust on the ground, (Ecclesiasticus 44, 22)
Isaac, the son of such a father, fared no worse; (Ecclesiasticus 44, 24)
A man of his own blood, born to infatuate a nation, (Ecclesiasticus 47, 27)
Of thee it was written that in time of judgement to come thou wouldst appease the divine anger, by reconciling heart of father to heart of son, and restore the tribes of Israel as they were. (Ecclesiasticus 48, 10)
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)
So faithfully Ezechias did the Lord’s will, following boldly the example of his father, king David; so well he obeyed Isaias, a great prophet and a faithful interpreter of the vision the Lord gave him. (Ecclesiasticus 48, 25)
A king divinely ordained to make a nation’s amends, how he swept away all the foul idols of the law-breakers; (Ecclesiasticus 49, 3)
nor Joseph, that was born to be his brethren’s master, and the bulwark of a great nation. Lord of his brethren, stay of a people, (Ecclesiasticus 49, 17)
Two nations with all my heart I loathe; and a third I can name, that nation indeed is none; (Ecclesiasticus 50, 27)
to the Lord, Father of the Master I serve,✻ I made my plea. Would he leave me unaided when I was in distress, when my enemies were triumphing over me? (Ecclesiasticus 51, 14)
Woe to a sinful nation, a people bowed with guilt, a rebellious race, a brood foully degenerate! They have forsaken God, they have spurned the Holy One of Israel, turned strangers to me. (Isaiah 1, 4)
