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But they counted our life a
pastime, and our time here a market for gain: for, say they, we must be getting every way,
though it be by evil means.
For when unrighteous men
thought to
oppress the holy nation; they being shut up in their houses, the prisoners of darkness, and
fettered with the bonds of a long night, lay there exiled from the eternal providence.
Only there appeared unto them a fire
kindled of itself, very
dreadful: for being much
terrified, they
thought the things which they saw to be worse than the sight they saw not.
For
though no terrible thing did fear them; yet being
scared with beasts that passed by, and
hissing of serpents,
On the other side, the flames wasted not the flesh of the corruptible living things,
though they walked therein; neither melted they the
icy kind of heavenly meat that was of nature apt to
melt.
Many kings have sat down upon the ground; and one that was never thought of hath worn the crown.
Though he humble himself, and go
crouching, yet take good
heed and
beware of him, and thou shalt be unto him as if thou hadst
wiped a lookingglass, and thou shalt know that his
rust hath not been altogether
wiped away.
If
adversity come upon thee, thou shalt find him there first; and
though he pretend to help thee, yet shall he undermine thee.
Though they multiply,
rejoice not in them, except the fear of the Lord be with them.
If a servant say to his master, I will not do as it pleaseth thee; though afterward he do it, he angereth him that nourisheth him.
A heart settled upon a thought of understanding is as a fair plaistering on the wall of a gallery.
Though thou drewest a sword at thy friend, yet
despair not: for there may be a returning to favour.
Who will set scourges over my
thoughts, and the discipline of wisdom over mine heart? that they
spare me not for mine ignorances, and it pass not by my sins:
For her thoughts are more than the sea, and her counsels profounder than the great deep.
An evil wife is a yoke
shaken to and
fro: he that hath hold of her is as
though he held a
scorpion.
Though his father die, yet he is as though he were not dead: for he hath left one behind him that is like himself.
The heart of the
foolish is like a cartwheel; and his
thoughts are like a rolling
axletree.
Yet have I more to say, which I have thought upon; for I am filled as the moon at the full.
Therefore from the beginning I was resolved, and thought upon these things, and have left them in writing.
Their imagination of things to come, and the day of death, trouble their thoughts, and cause fear of heart;
No thought escapeth him, neither any word is hidden from him.
And some there be, which have no
memorial; who are perished, as
though they had never been; and are become as
though they had never been born; and their children after them.
Then thought I upon thy mercy, O Lord, and upon thy acts of old, how thou deliverest such as wait for thee, and savest them out of the hands of the enemies.
Yet cannot these gods save themselves from
rust and
moth,
though they be covered with purple
raiment.
And he that cannot put to death one that offendeth him holdeth a
sceptre, as
though he were a judge of the country.
In like manner, they can neither give riches nor money:
though a man make a
vow unto them, and keep it not, they will not require it.
Who if they shall see one
dumb that cannot speak, they bring him, and intreat
Bel that he may speak, as
though he were able to understand.
The women also with cords about them, sitting in the ways, burn
bran for
perfume: but if any of them, drawn by some that passeth by, lie with him, she reproacheth her fellow, that she was not
thought as worthy as herself, nor her cord broken.
Whatsoever is done among them is false: how may it then be
thought or said that they are gods?
Moreover they cannot
withstand any king or enemies: how can it then be
thought or said that they be gods?
Now when the kingdom was established before
Antiochus, he
thought to reign over Egypt that he might have the dominion of two realms.
Then Mattathias answered and spake with a loud voice, Though all the nations that are under the king’s dominion obey him, and fall away every one from the religion of their fathers, and give consent to his commandments:
To day he shall be lifted up and to
morrow he shall not be found, because he is returned into his dust, and his
thought is come to nothing.
They
thought it best to pull it down, lest it should be a reproach to them, because the heathen had
defiled it: wherefore they pulled it down,
Wherefore they
thought to destroy the generation of Jacob that was among them, and
thereupon they began to
slay and destroy the people.
Thus was there a great overthrow among the children of Israel, because they were not
obedient unto
Judas and his brethren, but
thought to do some
valiant act.
And I
thought with myself, Into what
tribulation am I come, and how great a flood of misery is it, wherein now I am! for I was
bountiful and beloved in my power.
And that by their policy and
patience they had conquered all the place,
though it were very far from them; and the kings also that came against them from the
uttermost part of the earth, till they had
discomfited them, and given them a great overthrow, so that the rest did give them tribute every year:
And though certain ungodly men of the people had made complaints against him,
The people therefore
sang the acts of Simon, and unto what glory he
thought to bring his nation, made him their governor and chief priest, because he had done all these things, and for the justice and faith which he kept to his nation, and for that he sought by all means to
exalt his people.
We
thought it good therefore to write unto the kings and countries, that they should do them no
harm, nor fight against them, their cities, or countries, nor yet aid their enemies against them.
Wherefore his heart being lifted up, he
thought to get the country to himself, and
thereupon consulted
deceitfully against Simon and his sons to destroy them.
For
Antiochus, as
though he would marry her, came into the place, and his friends that were with him, to receive money in name of a
dowry.
Therefore whereas we are now purposed to keep the
purification of the temple upon the five and
twentieth day of the month Casleu, we
thought it necessary to
certify you thereof, that ye also might keep it, as the feast of the tabernacles, and of the fire, which was given us when Neemias offered sacrifice, after that he had builded the temple and the altar.
This
ungracious Jason sent special messengers from Jerusalem, who were Antiochians, to carry three hundred drachms of silver to the sacrifice of
Hercules, which even the bearers thereof
thought fit not to
bestow upon the sacrifice, because it was not convenient, but to be reserved for other charges.
Wherefore
Menelaus, taking
Andronicus apart, prayed, him to get Onias into his hands; who being persuaded
thereunto, and coming to Onias in
deceit, gave him his right hand with oaths; and
though he were suspected by him, yet persuaded he him to come forth of the sanctuary: whom
forthwith he shut up without regard of justice.
Now when there was gone forth a false rumour, as
though Antiochus had been dead,
Jason took at the least a thousand men, and suddenly made an
assault upon the city; and they that were upon the walls being put back, and the city at length taken,
Menelaus fled into the castle:
Now when this that was done came to the king’s
car, he
thought that
Judea had revolted:
whereupon removing out of Egypt in a
furious mind, he took the city by force of arms,
For
though for the present time I should be delivered from the punishment of men: yet should I not escape the hand of the
Almighty, neither alive, nor dead.
They that led him changing the good will they bare him a little before into hatred, because the
foresaid speeches proceeded, as they
thought, from a
desperate mind.
And
though the living Lord be
angry with us a little while for our
chastening and correction, yet shall he be at one again with his servants.
Then swelling with anger. he
thought to
avenge upon the Jews the disgrace done unto him by those that made him
flee. Therefore commanded he his chariotman to drive without ceasing, and to
dispatch the journey, the judgment of God now following him. For he had spoken proudly in this sort, That he would come to Jerusalem and make it a common
burying place of the Jews.
And thus he that a little
afore thought he might command the waves of the sea, (so proud was he beyond the condition of man) and
weigh the high mountains in a balance, was now cast on the ground, and carried in an
horselitter,
shewing forth unto all the manifest power of God.
And the man, that
thought a little
afore he could reach to the stars of heaven, no man could
endure to carry for his
intolerable stink.
As for me, I was weak, or else I would have remembered kindly your honour and good will returning out of Persia, and being taken with a
grievous disease, I
thought it necessary to care for the common safety of all:
Now
Timotheus, whom the Jews had overcome before, when he had gathered a great multitude of foreign forces, and horses out of Asia not a few, came as
though he would take
Jewry by force of arms.
The men of
Joppa also did such an ungodly deed: they prayed the Jews that dwelt among them to go with their wives and children into the boats which they had prepared, as
though they had meant them no
hurt.
And also in that he perceived that there was great favour laid up for those that died godly, it was an holy and good
thought.
Whereupon he made a
reconciliation for the dead, that they might be delivered from sin.
For he
thought by taking him to do the Jews much
hurt.
Nevertheless, while there was yet breath within him, being inflamed with anger, he rose up; and
though his blood
gushed out like spouts of water, and his wounds were
grievous, yet he ran through the midst of the
throng; and standing upon a steep rock,