1 For this cause werethese menworthily punished throughcreatureslikethose which they worship, And tormented through a multitude of vermin. 2 Instead of which punishment, you, bestowing benefits on your people, Preparedst quails for food, Food ofrare taste, tosatisfythe desire oftheirappetite; 3 To the end thatyour enemies, desiring food, Might for the hideousness of thecreaturessent among them […]
Monthly Archives: August 2017
Wisdom of Solomon 17
1 For great are your judgements, and hard tointerpret; Therefore souls undisciplined went astray. 2 For when lawless men had supposed that they held a holy nation in their power, They,themselves,prisoners of darkness, and bound in the fetters of a long night, Close kept beneath their roofs, Lay exiled from the eternal providence. 3 For […]
Wisdom of Solomon 18
1 But for your holy ones there was great light; Andthe Egyptians,hearing their voice but seeing not their form, Counted it a happy thing that they too had suffered, 2 Yet for that they do not hurt themnow,though wrongedby thembefore, they are thankful; And because they had been at variancewith them,they made supplicationto them. 3 […]
Wisdom of Solomon 19
1 But upon the ungodly there came to the end indignation without mercy; For their future alsoGodforeknew, 2 How that, having changed their minds tolet your peoplego, And having speeded them eagerly on their way, They would repent themselves and pursue them. 3 For while they were yet in the midst of their mourning, And […]
Greek Additions to Esther 10
PART OF THE TENTH CHAPTER AFTER THE GREEK. 4 Then Mardocheus said, These things are of God. 5 For I remember the dreamwhich I saw concerning these matters, and nothing thereof has failed. 6 As for the little fountain that became a river, and there was light, and the sun, and much water, the river […]
Greek Additions to Esther 11
1 In the fourth year of the reign of Ptolemy and Cleopatra, Dositheus, who said he was a priest and Levite, and Ptolemy his son, brought the epistle of Phruraihereset forth, which they said was the same, and that Lysimachus the son of Ptolemy, that was in Jerusalem, had interpreted it. 2 In the second […]
Greek Additions to Esther 12
1 And Mardocheus took his rest in the court with Gabatha and Tharra, the two eunuchs of the king, that were keepers of the court. 2 And he heard their communings, and searched out their purposes, and learned that they were about to lay hands upon Artaxerxes the king; and he certified the king of […]
Greek Additions to Esther 13
1 Now this is the copy of the letter: The great king Artaxerxes writes these things to the princes of a hundred and seven and twenty provinces from India to Ethiopia, and to the governors that are set under them. 2 After that I became lord over many nations, and had dominion over the whole […]
Greek Additions to Esther 14
1 Queen Esther also, being seizedas it werewith the agony of death, resorted to the Lord: 2 and laid away her glorious apparel, and put on the garments of anguish and mourning: and instead of the most excellent ointments, she covered her head with ashes and dung, and she humbled her body greatly, and all […]
Greek Additions to Esther 15
1 And upon the third day, when she had ended her prayer, she laid away her garments of service, and put on her glorious apparel. 2 And being majestically adorned, after she had called upon the all-seeing God and savior, she took her two maids with her: 3 and upon the one she leaned, as […]