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• who thereupon cleansed the sanctuary, nor any stone that was polluted with idolatry but they had it away into a place unclean. (1 Maccabees 4, 43)

• But it was against the holy place itself that he turned his arms, and long he beleaguered it; what catapults he brought to bear on it, what engines! Flew fiery darts, flew stone and javelin and arrow from mangonel and arbalest, and the slings took their turn. (1 Maccabees 6, 51)

• It was the walls needed rebuilding, so he told his workmen; on every side, the hill of Sion must be defended with hewn stone; and punctually they obeyed him. (1 Maccabees 10, 11)

• Over the graves of his father and his brethren Simon raised a towering monument, of dressed stone behind and before; (1 Maccabees 13, 27)

• who this might be, Onias told him forthwith: Here is one that loves our brethren, the people of Israel, well; one that for Israel and for every stone of the holy city prays much; God’s prophet Jeremias. (2 Maccabees 15, 14)

• Nettles were everywhere, briers had covered the ground, the stone wall was ruinous. (Proverbs 24, 31)

• Pay a fool reverence, thou hast wasted one more stone on Mercury’s cairn. (Proverbs 26, 8)

• What is more crushing than stone, more burdensome than sand? A fool’s ill humour. (Proverbs 27, 3)

• Stone crushes his foot that stone carries, and wood scratches him that wood cuts. (Ecclesiastes 10, 9)

• But there are men more wretched yet, men who repose all their confidence in a world of shadows. They give the name of god to what is made by human art, gold and silver that human workmanship has turned into the likeness of living things, blocks of senseless stone that human hands have carved, long ago. (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 10)

• What ill names shall we hurl at the sluggard? Stone from the sewers, that has no man’s good word; (Ecclesiasticus 22, 1)

• One stone flung, and the birds are all on the wing; one taunt uttered, and the friendship is past repair. (Ecclesiasticus 22, 25)