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So false the calculations that are blinded by human malice! (Wisdom of Solomon 2, 21)
you that held his commission and were false to it, justice neglected, the law set aside, his divine will transgressed. (Wisdom of Solomon 6, 5)
Tender, at the first false step, is thy rebuke; thou dost remind and warn us that we have gone astray, to make us leave our sinning and have faith in thee. (Wisdom of Solomon 12, 2)
And so it was that thou didst plague the Egyptians,✻ that were knaves and fools both; their own false gods should be the undoing of them. (Wisdom of Solomon 12, 23)
Nor were they content with these false notions of God’s nature; living in a world besieged by doubt, they misnamed its innumerable disorders a state of peace. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 22)
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)
Do not play false in thy dealings with men, nor suffer thy own words to ensnare thee. (Ecclesiasticus 1, 37)
Out upon the false heart, the cheating lips, the hands busy with ill-doing; upon the sinner that will go two ways at once to enter the land of his desire. (Ecclesiasticus 2, 14)
Out upon the men who have given up hope, forsaking the right path, and to false paths betaking them; (Ecclesiasticus 2, 16)
This false friend will be thy companion for an hour, then, if thou art for altering thy course, he will not hear of it; (Ecclesiasticus 12, 14)
instead of courting false hopes, that bring their own abasement. (Ecclesiasticus 13, 10)
Do not complain that it was he led thee into false paths; what need has God, thinkest thou, of rebels? (Ecclesiasticus 15, 12)
