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Only when thy omnipotence is doubted wilt thou assert thy mastery, their rashness making manifest, who will not acknowledge thee;✻ (Wisdom of Solomon 12, 17)
Perhaps the beauty of such things bewitched them into mistaking it for divinity? Ay, but what of him who is Master of them all; what excellence must be his, the Author of all beauty, that could make them! (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 3)
That done, he must find a suitable room to house it, and there lets it into the wall, making it fast with iron clamps. (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 15)
But no, he never looks forward to the day when he will be past work; how short life is, he recks not; he must vie with goldsmith and silversmith, he must be even with his neighbour that works in bronze; in puppet-making✻ all his hope lies of winning fame. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 9)
or the sudden crash of tumbling rocks, or the padding feet of beasts that gambolled past them unseen, or the howl of wild things ravening, or a booming echo from the mountain hollows, it was all one; it would startle them into a great quaking of fear. (Wisdom of Solomon 17, 18)
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)
Out upon the men who have given up hope, forsaking the right path, and to false paths betaking them; (Ecclesiasticus 2, 16)
Death has become thy familiar; pit-falls encompass thy path; thou art making the rounds of a beleaguered city.✻ (Ecclesiasticus 9, 20)
Listen first, then answer, never breaking in when the tale is half told. (Ecclesiasticus 11, 8)
Error and darkness are sinful man’s birthright; it is by making evil their delight that men grow hardened in evil. (Ecclesiasticus 11, 16)
When men first came to be, it was God made them, and, making them, left them to the arbitrament of their own wills; (Ecclesiasticus 15, 14)
of fire breaking out where sinners were met in company, fires of vengeance to consume a disobedient race. (Ecclesiasticus 16, 7)
