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1003 II, 65 | Nicanor, the king of Asia, sanctioned the tax for the temple-service,
1004 II, 84 | accompanied by his councillors, sat in judgement on a certain
1005 II | chapters of ancient history. Savage attempts to make the Jews
1006 V | ancient tyranny at its utmost savagery. Verse 26 is profound truth.~
1007 VI, 232 | survivor to obey and be saved.~
1008 VII, 276 | loved rather religion, which saveth unto eternal life according
1009 I, 3 | 3 That is to say, if Reason~is proved to
1010 II, 59 | took a water-vessel, and scaled the enemy's ramparts; and
1011 V, 200 | in Scythian fashion the scalp from his head, and straightway
1012 II, 96 | 48 And you scoff at our philosophy, as if
1013 II, 63 | goodness of Reason to defy with scorn all the domination of the
1014 V, 218 | completely curled back like a scorpion and every joint was disjointed.~
1015 V, 179 | 11 So by his orders the scourgers brought forward the eldest
1016 III, 110 | his flesh to be tom by the scourges till he was bathed in blood
1017 II, 74 | high-priest, although most scrupulous in other cases, made intercession
1018 V, 200 | fingers with it, and tore in Scythian fashion the scalp from his
1019 IV, 129 | ship of sanctity on the sea of the passions, though
1020 IV, 131 | mind film as a beetling sea-cliff, broke the mad onset of
1021 IV, 138 | Law and perfected by the seal of death!~
1022 II, 59 | guards at the gate, they searched through all the enemy's
1023 VI, 273 | even the bees, about the season of the making of the comb,
1024 I, 23 | gluttony, and gormandizing in secret.~
1025 VIII, 339 | 23 No seducer of the desert, no deceiver
1026 VIII, 333 | Israelites, children born of the seed of Abraham, obey this Law,
1027 II, 81 | death upon any who should be seen to live after the law of
1028 VI, 231 | persuade him, saying: 'Thou seest the end of the folly of
1029 III, 115 | will bring to thee of the seethed meats, but do thou feign
1030 II, 71 | armed host marched in to seize the moneys, there appeared
1031 VIII, 317 | she also was about to be seized and put to death, she cast
1032 VIII, 332 | inspired his men with a sense of honour and heroism on
1033 I, 48 | mind on a throne amidst the senses to be his sacred guide in
1034 VI, 232 | thus appealing to him he sent for the boy's mother, in
1035 VI, 258 | 30 And to each separate one of the brothers, as
1036 I, 19 | the passions have certain sequences.~
1037 I, 1 | philosophy of it I would seriously entreat your earnest attention.~
1038 VIII, 339 | did the false, beguiling Serpent sully the purity of my maidenhood;
1039 VI, 235 | of God, and to slay his servants and torture the followers
1040 VI, 248 | entering the haven, so the seven-towered right Reason of the youths
1041 VI, 230 | cast into the cauldron, the seventh son, the youngest of them
1042 I, 37 | without interest, and at the seventh-year periods cancels the debt.~
1043 | several
1044 VII, 289 | the flesh of one son being severed after the flesh of another,
1045 I, 33 | the impulse not only of sexual desire, but of all sorts
1046 VII, 312 | 38 For it would be shameful if, while this aged man
1047 VII, 277 | likeness of our soul and of our shape on the tender nature of
1048 IV, 152 | 24 Share in the Hellenic life, and
1049 V, 190 | and grappling him with sharp-clawed hands of iron they fastened
1050 VII, 286 | 12 O mother, who now knew sharper pangs than the pangs of
1051 I, 46 | slaughter of the tribe of the Shechemites, saying, 'Accursed be their
1052 VII, 289 | tortures of thy children, thou sheddest not a tear.~
1053 Int | place as a sample of the sheerest eloquence.~The keynote is --
1054 VI, 271 | the birds, the tame ones sheltering under our roofs defend their
1055 IV, 130 | his Reason that was the shield of sanctity.~
1056 IV, 129 | waves of the tortures, never shifted for one moment the helm
1057 IV, 129 | fine steersman steering the ship of sanctity on the sea of
1058 Int | are elaborated in a way shocking to our taste. Even the emergence
1059 VIII, 319 | earthquake of the torments shook thee not at all.~
1060 III, 109 | him, a herald standing and shouting out over against him, 'Obey
1061 IV, 158 | dreadful engines, not only showed no fear but actually arrayed
1062 III | gentle spirited old man, shows such fortitude that even
1063 VI, 263 | youths turned coward, none shrunk in the face of death, but
1064 VI, 267 | 39 We now shudder when we hear of the suffering
1065 VIII, 323 | not the spectators have shuddered at the mother of seven sons
1066 IV, 130 | moved them who were laying siege to his soul through his
1067 VII, 288 | their quivering nostrils the signs of approaching death.~
1068 V, 209 | for thou shalt not thereby silence my Reason.~
1069 I, 46 | Jacob blame the houses of Simeon and Levi for their unreasoning
1070 VI, 270 | young an affection and love similar to men's.~
1071 | since
1072 II, 73 | For he said that he had sinned and was worthy even of death,
1073 VI, 235 | and most ungodly of all sinners, art thou not ashamed to
1074 VII, 290 | Not the melodies of the sirens nor the songs of swans with
1075 V, 220 | this man also was dead, the sixth was brought, a mere boy,
1076 II, 76 | thousand six hundred and sixty talents yearly.~
1077 V, 223 | 55 And they made sharp skewers red-hot and ran them into
1078 II, 57 | of water, was unable to slake it.~
1079 II, 66 | since despite every kind of slander he failed to injure him
1080 I, 46 | Levi for their unreasoning slaughter of the tribe of the Shechemites,
1081 II, 51 | him to escape being made a slave by desire.~
1082 IV, 142 | persons appearing to be slaves to passion in consequence
1083 VIII, 348 | cut out their tongues, and slew them with many kinds of
1084 IV, 148 | distinguished bearing he smiled at them, and calling them
1085 V, 199 | wrenched his limbs out of their sockets, and unstrung them; and
1086 Int | Mother, does nothing to soften the ferocity with which
1087 VII, 278 | 4 For women are softer of soul than men, and the
1088 VIII, 332 | up their endurance to his soldiers as an example; and he thus
1089 VIII, 346 | quoted to us the proverb of Solomon, "He is a tree of life to
1090 | someone
1091 I, 37 | 37 Certainly, as soon as a man orders his life
1092 V, 169 | AND thus no sooner did the tyrant conclude
1093 VII, 304 | have been my nursings, and sorrowful my sucklings.~
1094 IV, 159 | faint-hearted and cowardly, what sort of language would they have
1095 I, 33 | sexual desire, but of all sorts of covetings.~
1096 VI, 231 | had him brought near, and sought to persuade him, saying: '
1097 VII, 290 | songs of swans with sweet sound do so charm the hearer's
1098 VII, 290 | charm the hearer's ears, as sounded the voices of the sons,
1099 VI, 259 | the world after the same space, and they draw milk from
1100 VII, 310 | being tortured, and thou spakest to thy sons in the Hebrew
1101 Int | suggesting the instruments of the Spanish Inquisition centuries later)
1102 V, 208 | is a hearer also of the speechless.~
1103 V, 211 | 43 But God will speedily pursue after thee; for thou
1104 V, 201 | on this they twisted his spine till he saw his own flesh
1105 III | III.~Eleazar, the gentle spirited old man, shows such fortitude
1106 I, 41 | property of the enemy from the spoilers, and gathers up their goods
1107 IV, 156 | branding irons, the tyrant spoke again and said:~
1108 V, 212 | the tortures, the fifth sprang forward saying, 'I shrink
1109 II, 60 | And they bravely found the spring, and drew from it a draught
1110 I, 24 | offshoots of these passions sprout up; and each man's Reason
1111 VI, 273 | fend off intruders, and stab with their sting, as with
1112 II, 102 | when righteousness is at stake the strength of youth returns
1113 VII, 277 | parents for children? We stamp a marvellous~likeness of
1114 VIII, 329 | whereby they now do both Stand beside the throne of God
1115 VIII, 321 | sons unto righteousness, standest in honour with God; and
1116 VIII, 321 | 5 Not so majestic stands the moon amid the stars
1117 VIII, 321 | lit the path of thy seven starlike sons unto righteousness,
1118 VIII, 321 | stands the moon amid the stars in heaven as thou, having
1119 Int | begins with an impassioned statement of the Philosophy of Inspired
1120 Int | before the Christian Era stating a clear-cut philosophy of
1121 II, 72 | intercession for him and stay the wrath of the heavenly
1122 IV, 134 | fidelity to the Law through thy steadfastness unto glory; and having spoken
1123 II, 59 | the enemy's ramparts; and stealing undetected past the guards
1124 IV, 129 | Eleazar, like a fine steersman steering the ship of sanctity on
1125 IV, 129 | father Eleazar, like a fine steersman steering the ship of sanctity
1126 VI, 273 | intruders, and stab with their sting, as with a sword, those
1127 II | story of David's thirst. Stirring chapters of ancient history.
1128 VI, 253 | past, 'Remember of what stock ye are, and at whose fatherly
1129 Int | Even the emergence of the stoical characters of the Old man,
1130 III, 113 | 7 The sweat stood on his brow, and he drew
1131 VII, 310 | bonds with thy sons,~thou stoodest there seeing Eleazar being
1132 II, 67 | treasuries of Jerusalem are stored many thousands of private
1133 VII, 297 | didst nobly weather the storms that assailed thee for religion'
1134 V, 200 | scalp from his head, and straightway brought him to the wheel.~
1135 V, 219 | 51 And thus in grievous strait for breath and anguish of
1136 I, 23 | in the body as eating of strange meat, and gluttony, and
1137 V, 200 | in no wise being able to strangle his spirit they stripped
1138 VIII, 338 | was a pure maiden, and I strayed not from my father's house,
1139 VII, 285 | heads right to their cheeks, strewn about like masks.~
1140 Int | attuned to gentler things it strikes appallingly. The detail'
1141 VI, 268 | 40 For sharp and stringent is the power of fire, and
1142 V, 201 | his own flesh hanging in strips and great gouts of blood
1143 IV, 164 | 36 Let us not strive against necessity nor with
1144 IV, 148 | took notice of them, and struck by their noble and distinguished
1145 I, 38 | refrains from gleaning his stubbles or picking the last grapes
1146 I, 33 | And Reason is proved to subdue the impulse not only of
1147 I, 2 | 2 For not only is the subject generally necessary as a
1148 I, 5 | enable us to resist them successfully.~
1149 Int | appallingly. The detail's of the successive tortures (suggesting the
1150 II, 76 | But Seleucus dying, his successor on the throne was his son
1151 VI, 272 | own speech, and they give succour to their young ones in whatever
1152 VII, 304 | nursings, and sorrowful my sucklings.~
1153 V, 193 | this moment thou thyself sufferest tortures worse than mine
1154 VIII, 335 | upon earth, and in death he suffers punishment.~
1155 V, 177 | hands of divine justice sufficient torment by fire for ever.'~
1156 II, 94 | yet, were our Law, as you suggest, not truly divine, while
1157 Int | the successive tortures (suggesting the instruments of the Spanish
1158 I | Repressions." Verse 48 sums up the whole Philosophy
1159 III, 110 | his body could no longer support the pain he still kept his
1160 IV, 159 | 31 And yet consider; supposing some amongst them to have
1161 VI, 246 | is impossible to deny the supremacy of the mind; for they won
1162 II, 50 | 2 But the argument is supremely ridiculous. For Reason is
1163 II, 93 | 45 Therefore we do surely deem it right not. in any
1164 VII, 297 | beaten upon every side by the surging waves of the passions, and
1165 I, 31 | And what is there to be surprised at if the natural desire~
1166 VII, 293 | the noble mother willingly surrendered them through faith in God.~
1167 VI, 261 | brotherly love, nevertheless the surviving sons through their religion
1168 VI, 232 | sons she might urge the survivor to obey and be saved.~
1169 VII, 290 | sirens nor the songs of swans with sweet sound do so charm
1170 II, 53 | powerful ally against being swayed by malevolence.~
1171 IV, 129 | tyrant and swept by the swelling waves of the tortures, never
1172 IV, 129 | threats of the tyrant and swept by the swelling waves of
1173 VI, 268 | is the power of fire, and swiftly did it bring their bodies
1174 VI, 273 | with their sting, as with a sword, those who approach their
1175 Int | book (we have it from a Syrian translation) as a work of
1176 II, 85 | 37 And when many had been taken by force, one man first
1177 Int | its reasoning - that it takes its place as a sample of
1178 V, 176 | therefore, O tyrant. And if thou takest our lives for the sake of
1179 VIII, 323 | as might some artist, the tale of thy piety, would not
1180 II, 76 | thousand six hundred and sixty talents yearly.~
1181 VI, 271 | example, among the birds, the tame ones sheltering under our
1182 II, 65 | of Asia, sanctioned the tax for the temple-service,
1183 Int | of high moral value and teaching, and it was undoubtedly
1184 II, 72 | hands to heaven, and with tears he entreated the Hebrews
1185 IV, 132 | didst not defile thy holy teeth, nor didst thou befoul with
1186 VI, 233 | Hebrew tongue, as I shall tell later on, encouraged the
1187 VI, 248 | righteousness and repulsed the tempestuousness of the passions.~
1188 II, 65 | sanctioned the tax for the temple-service, and recognized our polity,
1189 VII, 282 | though she had so many temptations to yield to her maternal
1190 I, 27 | controlled by Reason; when we are tempted towards forbidden meats,
1191 VII, 304 | and to no profit was my ten months' burden seven times
1192 VII, 277 | and of our shape on the tender nature of the child, and
1193 VII, 279 | child-bearings felt maternal tenderness for the fruit of her womb,
1194 IV, 135 | reverend elder that wast tenser-strung than the flame, thou great
1195 II, 56 | sweat and toil, to the royal tent, around which was encamped
1196 IV, 160 | us and appeals to us on terms of kind treatment shall
1197 V, 174 | 6 Thou wouldst terrify us with thy threats of death
1198 I, 32(1)| See The Testament of Joseph, page 260.
1199 I, 10 | have begun with the general theory, as I am in the habit of
1200 | therein
1201 I, 24 | and thither, brings the thicket of dispositions and passions
1202 | thine
1203 VI, 255 | Let us not fear him who thinketh he kills; for a great struggle
1204 I, 24 | directing it hither and thither, brings the thicket of dispositions
1205 V, 179 | arms on either side with thongs.~
1206 II, 97 | pleasures and desires and are thoroughly trained in manliness so
1207 IV, 167 | the torture, nor did such thoughts enter into their minds.~
1208 II, 67 | Jerusalem are stored many thousands of private deposits, not
1209 VI, 267 | hearing the spoken, imminent threat, but actually feeling the
1210 II, 69 | robbed of them, and they threw all possible obstacles in
1211 Int | is its logic; so deep its thrusts; so cool its reasoning -
1212 IV, 156 | cauldrons, and braziers, and thumb-screws, and iron claws, and wedges,
1213 Int | is like a fearful peal of thunder echoing out of the dim horrors
1214 V, 218 | before the catapult; and they tied him thereto on his knees,
1215 V, 184 | torture strained him yet tighter on the wheel.~
1216 Int | an oration. So carefully timed are the risings and fallings
1217 III, 114 | courtiers of the king went tip to him and said:~
1218 Int | Reason that is just as potent today as it was two thousand years
1219 II, 56 | all fordone with sweat and toil, to the royal tent, around
1220 III, 110 | suffered his flesh to be tom by the scourges till he
1221 VI, 271 | that nest upon the mountain tops, and in the rock clefts,
1222 VII, 285 | and the flesh-covering, torn off from their heads right
1223 III, 107 | dragged him roughly to the torturing place.~
1224 VIII, 317 | order that no man might touch her body.~
1225 VI, 248 | 20 For even as towers on harbour-moles repulse
1226 Int | we have it from a Syrian translation) as a work of high moral
1227 II, 68 | disclosed to him the valuable treasure; then, after receiving authority
1228 II, 67 | to inform you that in the treasuries of Jerusalem are stored
1229 IV, 160 | appeals to us on terms of kind treatment shall we not obey him?~
1230 VIII, 346 | proverb of Solomon, "He is a tree of life to all them that
1231 II, 71 | and cast great fear and trembling upon them.~
1232 V, 176 | 8 Make trial therefore, O tyrant. And
1233 I, 46 | unreasoning slaughter of the tribe of the Shechemites, saying, '
1234 II, 83 | the people, he personally tried to force by tortures each
1235 III, 120 | So they, seeing him thus triumphant over the tortures and unmoved
1236 II, 84 | certain high place with his troops drawn up around him in full
1237 VII, 315 | same faith unto God, be not troubled; for it were against Reason
1238 IV, 143 | philosophy, and having put his trust in God, and knowing that
1239 I, 24 | pruning and binding up, and turning on the water and directing
1240 Int | We like to think of this twentieth Century as the Age of Reason
1241 II, 105 | shall my fathers receive me, unafraid of thy torments even to
1242 III, 108 | 2 And first they unclothed the old man, who was adorned
1243 V, 229 | therefore have we our Reason yet unconquered.'~
1244 V, 216 | tortures, if thou didst understand human aspirations and hadst
1245 V, 225 | 57 For the righteous understanding, O tyrant, is unconquerable.~
1246 II, 59 | s ramparts; and stealing undetected past the guards at the gate,
1247 Int | and teaching, and it was undoubtedly familiar to many of the
1248 Int | devastating are its arguments; so unfaltering is its logic; so deep its
1249 VI, 235 | tyrant,' he cried, 'and most ungodly of all sinners, art thou
1250 VI, 243 | even to the death, it is universally proved that the Inspired
1251 VI, 238 | cry "Woe is met" for thy unjust slaying of the champions
1252 II, 91 | urged by the tyrant to the unlawful eating of unclean meat,
1253 III, 118 | despised by the tyrant as unmanly should fail to defend the
1254 III, 120 | triumphant over the tortures and unmoved even by the pity of his
1255 I, 46 | Simeon and Levi for their unreasoning slaughter of the tribe of
1256 Int | the torture chambers is unrelenting. On our modern ears attuned
1257 II, 106 | indeed mayest be tyrant over unrighteous men, but thou shalt not
1258 III, 116 | heart to counterfeit a part unseemly to us.~
1259 VII, 306 | sons, that some were yet unwed, and those that were wedded
1260 IV, 157 | worship will pardon your unwilling transgression.'~
1261 VI, 260 | brought up together in the upright life, they loved one another
1262 VI, 232 | of so many sons she might urge the survivor to obey and
1263 V, 169 | the tyrant conclude his urging of them to eat unclean meat
1264 | used
1265 V | revealing ancient tyranny at its utmost savagery. Verse 26 is profound
1266 II, 78 | and a new constitution in utter defiance of the Law; so
1267 V | CHAP. V.~A chapter of horror and
1268 I, 23 | ostentation, and covetousness, and vain-glory, and contentiousness, and
1269 II, 94 | not truly divine, while we vainly believed it to be divine,
1270 II, 68 | Seleucus, disclosed to him the valuable treasure; then, after receiving
1271 Int | as a work of high moral value and teaching, and it was
1272 I, 42 | passions or vices, ambition, vanity, ostentation, pride, and
1273 II, 88 | on your part if with idle vapouring about truth you shall proceed
1274 VII, 293 | children and the many and varied forms of their torments,
1275 IV, 161 | and abandon these empty vaunts and this fatal bragging?~
1276 II, 104 | Reason, nor will I deny ye, O venerated priesthood and knowledge
1277 VI | CHAP. VI.~Brotherly bonds and a mother'
1278 I, 42 | more aggressive passions or vices, ambition, vanity, ostentation,
1279 VIII, 328 | And righteousness won the victor and gave the crown to her
1280 VIII, 350 | sons of Abraham, with their victorious mother, are gathered together
1281 II, 63 | of desire, and to wrestle victoriously with the pangs of our bodies
1282 VII | CHAP. VII.~A comparison of a mother'
1283 VIII | CHAP. VIII.~The famous "Athletes of
1284 VIII, 324 | THE HEBREW NATION.~THEY VINDICATED THE RIGHTS OF OUR PEOPLE~
1285 VII, 295 | 21 O mother of the race, vindicator of our Law, defender of
1286 I, 38 | the last grapes from his vineyards.~
1287 II, 71 | Holy Place that was being violated; and when Apollonius with
1288 IV, 146 | unclean meat, then truly in violent rage he ordered the guards
1289 VII, 290 | hearer's ears, as sounded the voices of the sons, speaking to
1290 VII, 294 | having the choice between two votes in the case of her children,
1291 VII, 283 | parents for offspring, and wages of nursing, and unconquerable
1292 VII, 308 | holy and God-fearing mother wailed not with this lamentation
1293 V, 188 | War a holy and honourable warfare on behalf of righteousness,
1294 VII, 309 | 35 O mother, warrior of God in the cause of religion,
1295 V, 188 | the just Providence that watched over our fathers become
1296 I, 29 | we feel a desire to eat water-animals and birds and beasts and
1297 II, 59 | their armour, and took a water-vessel, and scaled the enemy's
1298 VIII, 333 | and be righteous in all ways, recognizing that Inspired
1299 VII, 302 | that had the woman been weak of spirit, despite her motherhood,
1300 IV, 137 | muscles relaxed and his nerves weakened, grew a young man again
1301 V, 180 | scourged him till they were weary, and gained nothing thereby,
1302 VII, 297 | of thy sons, didst nobly weather the storms that assailed
1303 VII, 306 | unwed, and those that were wedded had begotten no children;
1304 V, 218 | loins over the rolling 'wedge' so that he was completely
1305 IV, 156 | thumb-screws, and iron claws, and wedges, and branding irons, the
1306 I, 24 | Reason as master-gardener, weeding and pruning and binding
1307 VII, 288 | 14 Neither didst thou weep when thou beheldest the
1308 IV, 161 | the dread instruments and weigh well his threats of the
1309 IV, 147 | handsome, and modest, and well-born,--and generally attractive.~
1310 VII, 302 | motherhood, she might have wept over them, and perchance
1311 VIII, 319 | 3 Thou wert nobly set as a roof upon
1312 | whatever
1313 II, 93 | it right not. in any way whatsoever to transgress the Law.~
1314 IV, 156 | the guards had produced wheels, and joint-dislocators,
1315 | whereas
1316 II, 79 | 31 Wherefore the divine justice was kindled
1317 VI, 259 | of the love of brethren, whereof the divine and all-wise
1318 V, 194 | whereas thou art in torment whilst glorying in thy impiety;
1319 I, 22 | debasement which~exhibits the widest variety of the passions.~
1320 VII, 307 | beautiful children, and am a widow and desolate in my woe!
1321 VI, 237 | wretch with the heart of a wild beast, to take men of like
1322 V, 220 | s inquiry whether he was willing to eat and be released,
1323 VI, 231 | if thou dost not obey, wilt thyself also be miserably
1324 VII, 295 | defender of our religion, and winner of the prize in the struggle
1325 II, 104 | not put thee to shame, O wisdom-loving Reason, nor will I deny
1326 IV, 149 | 21 'O young men, I wish well to each one of you,
1327 VIII, 328 | to her athletes. Who but wondered at the athletes of the true
1328 V, 190 | 22 But while all were wondering at his constancy of soul,
1329 VII, 297 | world for her burden in the world-whelming Deluge, did withstand the
1330 I, 15 | things of God and for our worldly profit the things of man.~
1331 II, 86 | hairs, although to have worn them so long a time, and
1332 V, 193 | thyself sufferest tortures worse than mine in seeing thy
1333 V, 203 | when' this man had died worthily of his brothers, they brought
1334 V, 174 | 6 Thou wouldst terrify us with thy threats
1335 III, 110 | his sides became a mass of wounds; and even when he fell to
1336 II, 63 | fires of desire, and to wrestle victoriously with the pangs
1337 II, 87 | innocent pleasures, and it is wrong to reject Nature's favours.~
1338 II, 76 | hundred and sixty talents yearly.~
1339 VII, 283 | and parental love, and yearning of parents for offspring,
1340 VI, 230 | cauldron, the seventh son, the youngest of them all, came forward.~
1341 VI, 260 | abundantly. Their common zeal for moral beauty and goodness
1342 VIII, 342 | spake to us of Phineas, the zealous priest, and he taught you
1343 VII, 311 | our nation, fight therein zealously on behalf of the Law of
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