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chapter 2
1
For
they have said, reasoning with themselves, but not right: The time of our life
is short and tedious, and in the end of a man there is no remedy, and no man
hath been known to have returned from hell:
2 For we are born of nothing, and after this we shall
be as if we had not been: for the breath in our nostrils is smoke: and speech a
spark to move our heart,
3 Which being put out, our body shall be ashes, and our
spirit shall be poured abroad as soft air, and our life shall pass away as the
trace of a cloud, and shall be dispersed as a mist, which is driven away by the
beams of the sun, and overpowered with the heat thereof:
4 And our name in time shall be forgotten, and no man
shall have any remembrance of our works.
5 For our time is as the passing of a shadow, and there
is no going back of our end: for it is fast sealed, and no man returneth.
6 Come therefore, and let us enjoy the good things that
are present, and let us speedily use the creatures as in youth.
7 Let us fill ourselves with costly wine, and
ointments: and let not the flower of the time pass by us.
8 Let us crown ourselves with roses, before they be
withered: let no meadow escape our riot.
9 Let none of us go without his part in luxury: let us
everywhere leave tokens of joy: for this is our portion, and this our lot.
10 Let us oppress the poor just man, and not spare the
widow, nor honour the ancient grey hairs of the aged.
11 But let our strength be the law of justice: for that
which is feeble, is found to be nothing worth.
12 Let us therefore lie in wait for the just, because
he is not for our turn, and he is contrary to our doings, and upbraideth us
with transgressions of the law, and divulgeth against us the sins of our way of
life.
13 He boasteth that he hath the knowledge of God, and
calleth himself the son of God.
14 He is become a censurer of our thoughts.
15 He is grievous unto us, even to behold: for his life
is not like other men's, and his ways are very different.
16 We are esteemed by him as triflers, and he
abstaineth from our ways as from filthiness, and he preferreth the latter end
of the just, and glorieth that he hath God for his father.
17 Let us see then if his words be true, and let us
prove what shall happen to him, and we shall know what his end shall be.
18 For if he be the true son of God, he will defend
him, and will deliver him from the hands of his enemies.
19 Let us examine him by outrages and tortures, that we
may know his meekness and try his patience.
20 Let us condemn him to a most shameful death: for
there shall be respect had unto him by his words.
21 These things they thought, and were deceived: for
their own malice blinded them.
22 And they knew not the secrets of God, nor hoped for
the wages of justice, nor esteemed the honour of holy souls.
23 For God created man incorruptible, and to the image
of his own likeness he made him.
24 But by the envy of the devil, death came into the
world:
25 And they follow him that are of his side.
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