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• others, following at their heels, fell to burning tower and gateway alike, and made a bonfire of the blasphemers. (2 Maccabees 10, 36)

• There is here a tower fifty cubits in height, rising sheer above a heap of ashes that surrounds it; (2 Maccabees 13, 5)

• And it was my resolve to search deep and find out the meaning of all that men do, here under the sun; all that curse of busy toil which God has given to the sons of Adam for their task. (Ecclesiastes 1, 13)

• if only a man never sees the sun, never learns the meaning of good fortune and ill! (Ecclesiastes 6, 5)

• Should I cudgel my wits to grow wise, and know the meaning of all earth’s tasks; be like the men that allow their eyes no sleep, day or night? (Ecclesiastes 8, 16)

• All this, too, I pondered in my heart, and would spare no pains to find out the meaning of it. Here are upright men and wise; and every task of theirs is in God’s keeping, nor can any tell whether they have earned his love, or his displeasure! (Ecclesiastes 9, 1)

• Conclude we then thus in general; Fear God, and keep his commandments; this is the whole meaning of man. (Ecclesiastes 12, 13)

• Thy neck rising proudly, nobly adorned, like David’s embattled tower, hung about with a thousand shields, panoply of the brave; (Song of Solomon 4, 4)

• Thy neck rising proudly like a tower, but all of ivory; deep, deep thy eyes, like those pools at Hesebon, under Beth-rabbim Gate; thy nose imperious as the keep that frowns on Damascus from the hill-side. (Song of Solomon 7, 4)

• wisdom comes from God only, and on wisdom the praise of God needs must wait. Praise on the lips of one who trusts God is rich in meaning; the Ruler of all inspires it. (Ecclesiasticus 15, 10)

• there are times when a man of piety sees truth clearer than seven sentinels high in a watch-tower. (Ecclesiasticus 37, 18)

• learn the hidden meaning of every proverb, make himself acquainted with sayings hard to understand. (Ecclesiasticus 39, 3)