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High above us, Lord, are thy judgements, mysterious thy dealings; no skill had those Egyptian hearts to understand them. (Wisdom of Solomon 17, 1)
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)
too high her teaching to be plainly revealed, too manifold her movements to be understood. (Ecclesiasticus 1, 7)
There is but one God, high creator of all things; sitting on his throne to govern us, a great king, worthy of all dread; (Ecclesiasticus 1, 8)
No fire burns so high but water may quench it; almsgiving was ever sin’s atoning. (Ecclesiasticus 3, 33)
so the most High an obedient son shall reckon thee, and shew thee more than a mother’s kindness. (Ecclesiasticus 4, 11)
To all alike, high and low, give just award. (Ecclesiasticus 5, 18)
Never ask of God high station, or of the king preferment. (Ecclesiasticus 7, 4)
Do not flatter thyself that God will look favourably on thy many offerings, as if he, the most High, could not refuse thy gifts. (Ecclesiasticus 7, 11)
the thought of God all thy thinking, the commandments of the most High all the matter of thy discourse. (Ecclesiasticus 9, 23)
A man may be lowly born, and yet rise high through the wisdom that is in him, till at last he takes his seat among men of rank. (Ecclesiasticus 11, 1)
Plume not thyself when thou goest bravely clad, nor pride thyself in thy brief hour of greatness. Of wonder and of praise what else is worthy, but the doings of the most High? And these, how hedged about with secrecy! (Ecclesiasticus 11, 4)
