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And now, thinking that his prayer for death was to be granted, the elder Tobias called his son to him (Tobit 4, 1)
alms-deeds were ever a sovereign way of escape from guilt and death, a bar against the soul’s passage into darkness; (Tobit 4, 11)
I hear stories told of this maid, Tobias answered; how she has been betrothed seven times, and to every bridegroom it brought death; how it was a fiend, if the tale be true, that made away with them. (Tobit 6, 14)
Almsgiving is death’s avoiding, is guilt’s atoning, is the winning of mercy and of life eternal; (Tobit 12, 9)
On his death-bed, he called his seven grandsons to him, with their father Tobias, and spoke thus: (Tobit 14, 5)
and found them thriving still, well content in their old age. Tenderly he cared for them, and when they died it was he that closed their eyes in death. Then he became heir to all Raguel possessed, and himself lived to see a fresh generation yet, descendants of his own. (Tobit 14, 15)
We adjure you by heaven and earth, and by the God of our fathers, who now takes such vengeance on us for our sins, to surrender the town to Holofernes’ army. If we must die, let it be a swift death at the sword’s point, not a lingering death from this parching thirst. (Judith 7, 17)
Be the eyes he casts on me a lure to catch himself, the professions of love I make, his death-blow! (Judith 9, 13)
Was it not Holofernes that defied the God of Israel, in his proud insolence, and threatened thyself with death? When Israel was conquered, thou too, he said, shouldst be put to the sword. To prove which was the truer prophet, here is his head. (Judith 13, 28)
Great despite the Lord Almighty did him, that he should fall into a woman’s power for his death-blow. (Judith 16, 7)
All the while she lived, and long after her death, was never enemy that disturbed the peace of Israel. (Judith 16, 30)
All through his dominions the couriers went out on their errand, bearing death and ruin to all the Jews, to young and old, to women and little children with the rest. The day fixed for their massacre and the seizing of their goods was the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, Adar. (Esther 3, 13)
