Talált 109 Eredmények: Sealed Book
Day after day while the feast continued Esdras read out the book of God’s law to them. So for seven days they kept high festival, and on the eighth there was a gathering of the whole people, held with due solemnity. (Nehemiah 8, 18)
In the book of Annals, the Levite chiefs are only entered down to the days of Eliasib’s grandson Jonathan. (Nehemiah 12, 23)
So, on the thirteenth day of that month, Nisan, the royal secretaries were summoned, and a decree was made in Aman’s sense. Governor and chieftain must receive a letter, each in the language and the characters of his own province or tribe, sent in the name of king Assuerus and sealed with his royal seal. (Esther 3, 12)
This feast has ever been known as the feast of Purim, because of Aman’s lot-taking. Here in this letter, nay, this book you have been reading, the whole story has been set out, deeds done, (Esther 9, 26)
and all else that is recorded in this book, the book of Esther. (Esther 9, 32)
Could but these words of mine be written down in a book, (Job 19, 23)
See then, I said, I am coming to fulfil what is written of me, where the book lies unrolled; (Psalms 39, 8)
Nothing but wine to take, nothing but water, thy health forbids; vary thy drinking,✻ and thou shalt find content. So it is with reading; if the book be too nicely polished at every point, it grows wearisome. So here we will have done with it. (2 Maccabees 15, 40)
My bride, my true love, a close garden; hedged all about, a spring shut in and sealed! What wealth of grace is here! (Song of Solomon 4, 12)
Only a passing shadow, this life of ours, and from its end there is no returning; the doom is sealed, and there is no acquittal. (Wisdom of Solomon 2, 5)
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)
What things are these I write of? What but the life-giving book that is the covenant of the most High, and the revelation of all truth? (Ecclesiasticus 24, 32)
