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I HAVE given you this description of the presents because I thought it was necessary.

The towers were guarded too by most trusty men who had given the utmost proof of their loyalty to their country.

I have now, my dear brother Philocrates, given you all the essential information upon this subject in brief form.

Our legislator taught us therefore that it is by such methods as these that indications are given to the wise, that they must be just and effect nothing by violence, and refrain from tyrannising over others in reliance upon their own strength.

Moreover, upon our garments he has given us a symbol of remembrance, and in like manner he has ordered us to put the divine oracles upon our gates and doors as a remembrance of God.

When all had signified by their applause their agreement with the answer, the king said to the philosophers (for not a few of them were present), 'It is my opinion that these men excel in virtue and possess extraordinary knowledge, since on the spur of the moment they have given fitting answers to these questions which I have put to them, and have all made God the starting-point of their words.'

When the king thought that a fitting opportunity had arrived to put inquiries to his guests, he proceeded to ask further questions of the men who sat next in order to those who had given answers on the previous day.

And he replied, 'To our parents continually, for God has given us a most important commandment with regard to the honour due to parents. In the next place He reckons the attitude of friend towards friend for He speaks of "a friend which is as thine own soul." You do well in trying to bring all men into friendship with yourself.'

For in this way you will win your hearer, not by opposing him, but by bestowing praise upon him with a view to persuading him. And it is by the power of God that persuasion is accomplished.' 53 The king said that he had given a good answer, and asked another, how he could live amicably with the many different races who formed the population of his kingdom?

The king said that he had given a fitting answer, and asked another, how is reputation lost?

The king said that he had given a good answer and asked another, What man is worthy of admiration?

Then in conclusion he said, I have derived the greatest benefit from your presence. I have profited much by the wise caching which you have given me in reference to the art of ruling.'

For though the questioner had given great thought to each particular question, those who replied one after the other had their answers to the questions ready at once and so they seemed to me and to all who were present and especially to the philosophers to be worthy of admiration.

For he said that he had sinned and was worthy even of death, and that if he were given his life he would laud to all men the blessedness of the Holy Place.

Therefore do we eat no unclean meat; for believing our Law to be given by God, we know also that the Creator of the world, as a Lawgiver, feels for us according to our nature.

Be assured then that you shall be given positions of importance and authority in my service if you will reject the ancestral law of your polity.

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.

Thou has given thy heart, O Lord, to thy believers: never wilt thou fail, nor be without fruits:

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

The Lord has multiplied the knowledge of Himself, and is zealous that these things should be known, which by His grace have been given to us.

For it spread over the face of the whole earth, and filled everything: and all the thirsty upon earth were given to drink of it;

And thirst was relieved and quenched: for from the Most High the draught was given.

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:

For He hath given a mouth to His creation, to open the voice of the mouth towards Him, to praise Him:

And righteousness hath taken it and hath given it to you.

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.

And according to His bounty He hath given to me, and according to His excellent beauty He hath made me.

And it hath been made known to His faithful ones, and hath been given without stint to all those that trust in Him. Hallelujah.

And no food was given to them, because it did not belong to them;

And He showed me His sign: forth and given me to drink, and from that life is the spirit within me, and it cannot die, for it lives.

And His face was justified, for thus His holy Father had given to Him.

For a great day has shined upon us: and marvellous is He who has given us of His glory.