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Back he came to Jerusalem, with the royal warrant to maintain him, yet all unworthy, with a tyrant’s cruel heart, more wild beast than high priest. (2 Maccabees 4, 25)
Grudge the Jewish folk burial, give their carrion to bird and beast, make an end of them, children and all? Nay, such high privileges they should have as the townsfolk of Athens itself. (2 Maccabees 9, 15)
How they blessed God’s mercy, all of them, at the sight! How their courage rose, a match for all it should encounter, men or wild beast or walls of iron! (2 Maccabees 11, 9)
But the Jews gainsaid him; for there were Jews that fought, unwillingly enough, under his orders. What, said they, wouldst thou fight beast-fashion, without mercy? This holy day respect thou needs must, in his honour that is God all-seeing. (2 Maccabees 15, 2)
Who has a right to tell us that the spirit of man mounts upwards, and the spirit of a beast sinks down to the depth? (Ecclesiastes 3, 21)
To every living thing its own breed, to every beast its own moods; the winds✻ rage, and men think deep thoughts; the plants keep their several kinds, and each root has its own virtue; (Wisdom of Solomon 7, 20)
or it may be he gives it the form of a senseless beast. And now he paints it with ochre; ruddled it must be till all its native colour is lost, all its faults hidden away. (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 14)
as have no beauty, even beast-fashion, to make them desirable; the least honourable of God’s creatures and the least blessed. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 19)
Even when no alarms were present to disturb them, the memory of prowling beast and hissing serpent filled them with mortal tremors, till they shut their eyes against the sight of empty air, we must all breathe.✻ (Wisdom of Solomon 17, 9)
And what is the new kingdom he inherits? Creeping things, and carrion beast, and worm.✻ (Ecclesiasticus 10, 13)
Who shall pity snake-charmer or beast-tamer if he takes hurt? And he deserves no less, who consorts with rogues and is entangled in their sinful ways. (Ecclesiasticus 12, 13)
Every beast consorts with its own kind, and shall not man with his fellow? (Ecclesiasticus 13, 19)
