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But he answered in a loud voice, 'Are ye ignorant that the same father begat me and my brothers that are dead, and the same mother gave us birth, and in the same doctrines was I brought up?

And at the point of death he said, 'We, O most abominable tyrant, suffer thus for our upbringing and our virtue that are of God; but thou for thy impiety and thy cruelty shall endure torments without end.'

But these things are worthy of honours not of tortures, if thou didst understand human aspirations and hadst hope of salvation before God.

And thus in grievous strait for breath and anguish of body he exclaimed, 'Glorious, O tyrant, glorious against thy will are the boons that thou bestowest on me, enabling me to show my fidelity to the Law through yet more honourable tortures.'

'I am not so old in years as my brethren, but I am as old in mind. For we were born and reared for the same purpose and are equally bound also to die for the same cause; so if thou chooseth to torture us for not eating unclean meat, torture.'

And one said, 'Brother, be of good cheer,' and another, 'Bear it out nobly'; and another recalling the past, 'Remember of what stock ye are, and at whose fatherly hand Isaac for righteousness' sake yielded himself to be a sacrifice.'

You are not ignorant of the love of brethren, whereof the divine and all-wise Providence has given an inheritance to those who are begotten though their fathers, implanting it in them even through the mother's womb; wherein brethren do dwell the like period, and take their form during the same time, and are nourished from the same blood, and are quickened with the same soul, and are brought into the world after the same space, and they draw milk from the same founts, whereby their fraternal souls are nursed together in arms at the breast; and they are knit yet closer through a common nurture and daily companionship and other education, and through our discipline under the Law of God.

You are not ignorant of the love of brethren, whereof the divine and all-wise Providence has given an inheritance to those who are begotten though their fathers, implanting it in them even through the mother's womb; wherein brethren do dwell the like period, and take their form during the same time, and are nourished from the same blood, and are quickened with the same soul, and are brought into the world after the same space, and they draw milk from the same founts, whereby their fraternal souls are nursed together in arms at the breast; and they are knit yet closer through a common nurture and daily companionship and other education, and through our discipline under the Law of God.

You are not ignorant of the love of brethren, whereof the divine and all-wise Providence has given an inheritance to those who are begotten though their fathers, implanting it in them even through the mother's womb; wherein brethren do dwell the like period, and take their form during the same time, and are nourished from the same blood, and are quickened with the same soul, and are brought into the world after the same space, and they draw milk from the same founts, whereby their fraternal souls are nursed together in arms at the breast; and they are knit yet closer through a common nurture and daily companionship and other education, and through our discipline under the Law of God.

You are not ignorant of the love of brethren, whereof the divine and all-wise Providence has given an inheritance to those who are begotten though their fathers, implanting it in them even through the mother's womb; wherein brethren do dwell the like period, and take their form during the same time, and are nourished from the same blood, and are quickened with the same soul, and are brought into the world after the same space, and they draw milk from the same founts, whereby their fraternal souls are nursed together in arms at the breast; and they are knit yet closer through a common nurture and daily companionship and other education, and through our discipline under the Law of God.

You are not ignorant of the love of brethren, whereof the divine and all-wise Providence has given an inheritance to those who are begotten though their fathers, implanting it in them even through the mother's womb; wherein brethren do dwell the like period, and take their form during the same time, and are nourished from the same blood, and are quickened with the same soul, and are brought into the world after the same space, and they draw milk from the same founts, whereby their fraternal souls are nursed together in arms at the breast; and they are knit yet closer through a common nurture and daily companionship and other education, and through our discipline under the Law of God.

You are not ignorant of the love of brethren, whereof the divine and all-wise Providence has given an inheritance to those who are begotten though their fathers, implanting it in them even through the mother's womb; wherein brethren do dwell the like period, and take their form during the same time, and are nourished from the same blood, and are quickened with the same soul, and are brought into the world after the same space, and they draw milk from the same founts, whereby their fraternal souls are nursed together in arms at the breast; and they are knit yet closer through a common nurture and daily companionship and other education, and through our discipline under the Law of God.

You are not ignorant of the love of brethren, whereof the divine and all-wise Providence has given an inheritance to those who are begotten though their fathers, implanting it in them even through the mother's womb; wherein brethren do dwell the like period, and take their form during the same time, and are nourished from the same blood, and are quickened with the same soul, and are brought into the world after the same space, and they draw milk from the same founts, whereby their fraternal souls are nursed together in arms at the breast; and they are knit yet closer through a common nurture and daily companionship and other education, and through our discipline under the Law of God.

But consider how manifold are the yearnings of a mother's heart, so that her feeling for her offspring becomes the centre of her whole world; and indeed,

For women are softer of soul than men, and the more children they bear the more do they abound in love for them.

For it would be shameful if, while this aged man endured the agony for religion's sake, you that are young men shrank before the pain.

For Moses says, 'All also who have sanctified themselves are under thy hands.'

Now these are the words that the mother of the seven sons, the righteous woman, spake to her children:

He sang to us the words of David the psalmist, "Many are the afflictions of the just."

But the sons of Abraham, with their victorious mother, are gathered together unto the place of their ancestors, having received pure and immortal souls from God, to whom be glory for ever and ever.

Thy fruits are full-grown and perfect, they are full of thy salvation.

Thy fruits are full-grown and perfect, they are full of thy salvation.

And his members are with him. And on them do I stand, and He loves me:

That which is the older shall not be altered by those that are younger than itself.

For thy seal is known: and thy creatures know it: and thy (heavenly) hosts possess it: and the elect archangels are clad with it.

Thou hast given us thy fellowship: it was not that thou wast in need of us: but that we are in need of thee:

Blessed then are the ministers of that draught who are entrusted with that water of His:

Blessed then are the ministers of that draught who are entrusted with that water of His:

He hath given Him to be seen of them that are His, in order that they may recognize Him that made them: and that they might not suppose that they came of themselves:

Keep my secret, ye who are kept by it:

Keep my faith, ye who are kept by it.

For I do not turn away my face from them that are mine;

For my workmanship are they and the strength of my thoughts:

I willed and fashioned mind and heart: and they are mine, and by my own right hand I set my elect ones:

And yet beloved ones in the Beloved: those who are kept, in Him that liveth:

And they that are saved in Him that was saved;

An everlasting crown for ever is Truth. Blessed are they who set it on their heads:

To convert the souls of them who are willing to come to Him; and to lead captive a good captivity for freedom.

And I worshipped the Lord on account of His glory; and I said, Blessed, O Lord, are they who are planted in thy land! and those who have a place in thy Paradise;

And I worshipped the Lord on account of His glory; and I said, Blessed, O Lord, are they who are planted in thy land! and those who have a place in thy Paradise;

Behold! all thy servants are fair, who do good works, and turn away from wickedness to the pleasantness that is thine:

And the Most High hath given it to His words, which are the interpreters of His own beauty, and the repeaters of His praise, and the confessors of His counsel, and the heralds of His thought, and the chasteners of His servants.

Blessed are they who by means thereof have understood everything, and have known the Lord in His truth. Hallelujah.

As the eyes of a son to his father, so are my eyes, O Lord, at all times towards thee.

For with thee are my consolations and my delight.

So also my work is the Psalm of the Lord: my craft and my occupation are in His praises:

And they know not how to stand and be idle; and His heavenly hosts are subject to His word.

O Lord, for the sake of them that are deficient do not remove thy word from me!

Thou art my God. Falsehood and death are not in thy mouth:

And they who receive in its fulness are the ones on the right hand.

And He who gathers together the things that are betwixt is He also who cast me down:

So also are the wings of the Spirit over my heart:

For fair it is and pure and gives rest to the soul. Much more pleasant are its waters than honey;

Blessed are they who have drunk therefrom and have found rest thereby. Hallelujah.

Nor is there any wound where the thoughts are upright:

The likeness of what is below is that which is above; for everything is above: what is below is nothing but the imagination of those that are without knowledge.

And I asked the Truth 'Who are these?'; and He said to me, 'This is the deceiver and the error:

And they are alike in the beloved and in his bride: and they lead astray and corrupt the whole world:

And then they leave them; and then these go about like madmen corrupting: seeing that-they are without heart, nor do they seek for it!

For He set the root and watered it and fixed it and blessed it; and its fruits are for ever.

Great rivers are the power of the Lord:

For they are more swift than lightning and more rapid, and those who cross them in faith are not moved;

For they are more swift than lightning and more rapid, and those who cross them in faith are not moved;

And His footsteps stand firm on the water, and are not injured; they are as firm as a tree that is truly set up.

And His footsteps stand firm on the water, and are not injured; they are as firm as a tree that is truly set up.

And the waves were lifted up on this side and on that, but the footsteps of our Lord Messiah stand firm and are not obliterated and are not defaced.

And the waves were lifted up on this side and on that, but the footsteps of our Lord Messiah stand firm and are not obliterated and are not defaced.

And His inheritance is immortal life, and those who participate in it are incorrupt. Hallelujah.

All my persecutors are dead; and they sought after me who hoped in me, because I was alive:

For they are free men and they are mine. Hallelujah.

For they are free men and they are mine. Hallelujah.