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and quails came up from the sea to content them.Nor were the Egyptians punished without warning; the thunders that terrified them were but echoes of the past. Did not their own wickedness deserve the pains they suffered, (Wisdom of Solomon 19, 12)
a race even more inhospitable than the men of Sodom before them? These did but refuse a welcome when strangers came to their doors; the Egyptians condemned their own guests, their own benefactors, to slavery. (Wisdom of Solomon 19, 13)
but these Egyptians had received the Israelites into their midst with rejoicing, had admitted them to rights of citizenship, and then turned on them with savage ill-treatment. (Wisdom of Solomon 19, 15)
All the elements may be transposed among themselves, keeping up the same answering rhythm, like the notes of a harp altering their mood; so much we may infer with certainty from the sights that have been witnessed in the past.✻ (Wisdom of Solomon 19, 17)
then fire, in its turn, could not waste the frail flesh of living creatures that traversed it, nor melt that heavenly food that melted easily as ice. No means wouldst thou neglect, Lord, to magnify thy people and win them renown; never wouldst thou leave them unregarded, but always and everywhere camest to their side.✻ (Wisdom of Solomon 19, 20)
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)
ere God’s wisdom thou canst trace to her origin, that was before all. (Ecclesiasticus 1, 3)
If a poor man would speak to thee, lend him thy ear without grudging; give him his due, and let him have patient and friendly answer. (Ecclesiasticus 4, 8)
When thou sittest in judgement, be a father to the orphans, a husband to the widow that bore them; (Ecclesiasticus 4, 10)
True answer and wise answer none can give but he who listens patiently, and learns all. (Ecclesiasticus 5, 13)
If discernment thou hast, give thy neighbour his answer; if none, tongue held is best, or some ill-advised word will shame thee; (Ecclesiasticus 5, 14)
Make her thy whole heart’s quest, follow, as best thou canst, the path she makes known to thee; (Ecclesiasticus 6, 27)
