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Hold me close to thy heart, close as locket or bracelet fits; not death itself is so strong as love, not the grave itself cruel as love unrequited; the torch that lights it is a blaze of fire. (Song of Solomon 8, 6)
The bird’s flight through air what print betrays? So fiercely lashed the still breeze with the beating of her pinions, as she cleaves her noisy way through heaven, wings flapping, and is gone; and afterwards, what sign of her going? (Wisdom of Solomon 5, 11)
Teeming hail-storms shall whirl about them, the artillery of his vengeance; fiercely the sea’s waves shall roar against them, pitilessly the floods cut them off; (Wisdom of Solomon 5, 23)
If thy desire be for honest living, man’s excellences are the fruit she labours to produce; temperance and prudence she teaches, justice and fortitude, and what in life avails man more? (Wisdom of Solomon 8, 7)
Ever the soul is weighed down by a mortal body, earth-bound cell that clogs the manifold activity of its thought. (Wisdom of Solomon 9, 15)
Nay, without more ado thou mightest have overthrown them with a single blast; all at once their sins should have found them out, thy fierce breath whirled them away; but no, all thou doest is done in exact measure, all is nicely calculated and weighed. (Wisdom of Solomon 11, 21)
Thy will was that our fathers should root them out, these unnatural murderers of their own defenceless children;✻ (Wisdom of Solomon 12, 6)
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)
Precious as an ornament of gold, close-fitting as a bracelet to the right arm, is instruction to a wise man. (Ecclesiasticus 21, 24)
Here were men that had power and bore rule, men that excelled in strength, or in the wisdom that dowered them; prophets that worthily upheld the name of prophecy, (Ecclesiasticus 44, 3)
and collar, necklace and bracelet and veil; (Isaiah 3, 19)
For our sakes a child is born, to our race a son is given, whose shoulder will bear the sceptre of princely power. What name shall be given him? Peerless among counsellors, the mighty God, Father of the world to come, the Prince of peace. (Isaiah 9, 6)
