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And after, the king, as I have already said, had received the explanation of Demetrius on this point, he did homage and ordered that great care should be taken of the books, and that they should be sacredly guarded.
For he counted it a great privilege to enjoy the society of such learned men, and he would rather lavish his wealth upon them than upon vanities.
At a time when our fathers enjoyed great peace through the due observance of the Law, and were in happy case, so that Seleucus Nicanor, the king of Asia, sanctioned the tax for the temple-service, and recognized our polity, precisely then, certain men, acting factiously against the general concord, involved us in many and various calamities.
Then the priests in the temple and the women and children besought God to come to the rescue of his Holy Place that was being violated; and when Apollonius with his armed host marched in to seize the moneys, there appeared from heaven angels, riding upon horses, with lightning flashing from their arms, and cast great fear and trembling upon them.
Think it not, then, a small sin for us to eat the unclean thing, for the transgression of the Law, be it in small things or in great, is equally heinous; for in either case equally the Law is despised.
But the great-souled and noble man, an Eleazar in very truth, was no more moved in his mind than if he were being tormented in a dream; yea, the old man keeping his eyes steadfastly raised to heaven suffered his flesh to be tom by the scourges till he was bathed in blood and his sides became a mass of wounds; and even when he fell to the ground because his body could no longer support the pain he still kept his Reason erect and inflexible.
O reverend elder that wast tenser-strung than the flame, thou great king over the passions, Eleazar.
And with his bodily frame already in dissolution this great-souled youth, like a true son of Abraham, groaned not at all; but as if he were suffering a change by fire to incorruption, he nobly endured the torment, saying:
And on this they twisted his spine till he saw his own flesh hanging in strips and great gouts of blood pouring down from his entrails.
Let us not fear him who thinketh he kills; for a great struggle and peril of the soul awaits in eternal torment those who transgress the ordinance of God.
For they were just, and temperate, and brave and great-souled, and lovers of each other and of their mother in such manner that they obeyed her in the keeping of the Law even unto death.
How many and how great were the tortures with which the mother was tormented while her sons were being tortured with torments of rack and fire!
For there went forth a stream and became a river great and broad;
A stone of great price is it; and there have been wars on account of the crown.
And they supposed of that vain thing that it was something great;
And they spake truth from the inspiration which the Most High breathed into them; Praise and great comeliness to His name Hallelujah.
And she brought Him forth openly, and acquired Him with great dignity,
And the letter was a great volume, which was wholly written by the. finger of God:
And I grew great by His bounty, and rested in His perfection,
While I praised amongst the praising ones, and great was I amongst the mighty ones.
Great rivers are the power of the Lord:
For a great day has shined upon us: and marvellous is He who has given us of His glory.
And I answered and said: 'So then I am destined to grieve for Zion, For your enemies will come to this place and pollute Your sanctuary, And lead your inheritance into captivity, And make themselves masters of those whom you have loved, And they will depart again to the place of their idols, And will boast before them: And what will you do for Your great name?'
Moreover, I, Baruch, say this against you, Babylon: 'If you had prospered, And Zion had dwelt in her glory, Yet the grief to us had been great That you should be equal to Zion.
For this world is to them a strife and a labor with much trouble; and that accordingly which is to come, a crown with great glory.'
You that rule with great thought the hosts that stand before you: also the countless holy beings, which you did make from the beginning, of flame and fire, which stand around Your throne you rule with indignation.
When a stupor shall seize the inhabitants of the earth, and they shall fall into many tribulations, and again when they shall fall into great torments.
And in the second part (there shall be) slayings of the great ones.
And Behemoth shall be revealed from his place and Leviathan shall ascend from the sea, those two great monsters which I created on the fifth day of creation, and shall have kept until that time; and then they shall be for food for all that are left.
Now that fountain came to the forest and was (stirred) into great waves, and those waves submerged that forest, and suddenly they rooted out the greater part of that forest, and overthrew all the mountains which were round about it.
And the height of the forest began to be made low, and the top of the mountains was made low and that fountain prevailed greatly, so that it left nothing of that great forest save one cedar only.
Also when it had cast it down and had destroyed and rooted out the greater part of that forest, so that nothing was left of it, nor could its place be recognized, then that vine began to come with the fountain in peace and great tranquility, and it came to a place which was not far from that cedar, and they brought the cedar which had been cast down to it.
As you have seen the great forest which lofty and rugged mountains surrounded, this is the word.
Because whatever is now is nothing, But that which shall be is very great. For everything that is corruptible shall pass away,
For assuredly as in a little time in this transitory world in which you live, you have endured much labor, So in that world to which there is no end, you shall receive great light.']
And when I had said these things I fell asleep there, and I saw a vision, and lo! a cloud was ascending from a very great sea, and I kept gazing upon it) and lo! it was full of waters white and black, and there were many colors in those self-same waters, and as it were the likeness of great lightning was seen at its summit.
And when I had said these things I fell asleep there, and I saw a vision, and lo! a cloud was ascending from a very great sea, and I kept gazing upon it) and lo! it was full of waters white and black, and there were many colors in those self-same waters, and as it were the likeness of great lightning was seen at its summit.
You show great acts to those who know not; You break up the enclosure of those who are ignorant, And lightest up what is dark, And reveal what is hidden to the pure, [Who in faith have submitted themselves to you and Your law.]
And I wondered and was astonished, and pondered in my thoughts regarding the multitude of goodness which sinners who are upon the earth have rejected, and regarding the great torment which they have despised, though they knew that they should be tormented because of the sin they had committed.
For as you did see a great cloud which ascended from the sea, and went and covered the earth, this is the duration of the world (= αιων) which the Mighty One made when he took counsel to make the world.
But the king of Babylon will arise who has now destroyed Zion, And he will boast over the people, And he will speak great things in his heart in the presence of the Most High.
The consummation, moreover, of the age shall then show the great might of its ruler, when all things come to judgment.
He said: I will be lord of land and sea; And he recognized not that it is God who is great, Mighty in His great strength.
He said: I will be lord of land and sea; And he recognized not that it is God who is great, Mighty in His great strength.
And now behold, ye princes of the earth, the judgment of the Lord, For a great king and righteous (is He), judging (all) that is under heaven.
Let God destroy them that insolently work all unrighteousness, For a great and mighty judge is the Lord our God in righteousness.
But Thy gift is great in goodness and wealth, And he whose hope is (set) on Thee shall have no lack of gifts.
As a father (entereth) the house of his sons, (so) he entered (Jerusalem) in peace; He established his feet (there) in great safety.
And he himself (will be) pure from sin, so that he may rule a great people. He will rebuke rulers, and remove sinners by the might of his word;
Great is our God and glorious, dwelling in the highest.
Great admiration held his soul, he saw
Of great heart, whom the immortal Saviour loved,
Thus he spoke; and great trembling seized on him
"O men insatiate, smit with madness great,
Revere, O mortals, the supremely great
When Eve's polluted race, in the great earth
By opening of great cataracts from heaven,
An olive branch--of tidings a great sign.
Courage now filled them all, and great delight,
From death, and there was great desire of heart;
Thence streams of the great river Marsyas spring.
The voice divine of the great God this word
Shall Cronos have. For three kings of great soul,
Of the great ocean shall upon them pour
But when the great high-thundering God shall cause
Then also shall a child of the great God
And they will oppress mortals. But great fall
Of the great God, since they wrought evil work.
The people of seven-hilled Rome, and riches great
And then shall the great God who dwells in heaven
And then will God show mortals a great sign:
Be common, neither great nor overmuch.
Before the judgment-seat of the great God
At the right hand on the great judgment-seat
Of impious men. And Moses, the great friend
Also great Abraham himself shall come,
And all who left the great immortal God,
From a great river circle them around,
Where comes the immortal way of the great God
Tyrant nor slave, nor any great nor small,
Holy Giver of manna, King of the great realm.
To hear the only name of heaven's great God,
And the great fiery sun and the bright moon
Cast down the great tower and stirred mortals up
And a great war and uproar they aroused.
Great, shrewd, who as a fearful cloud of war
And to those men shall great disaster be,
A great affliction, and it shall disturb
Who dwell by the great temple of Solomon
Nor any man of great wealth grieve the one
A great man, Moses, whom a princess found
And temple of the great God and long walls
In the great God's pure laws, when he shall lift
And I prayed the great Father for a rest
Because she his great temple had destroyed.
And stroke of the great God, who inspires songs,
To thee, O Egypt, shall a great blow come
In pieces the great house of the Immortal,
And murder of great leaders and chief men.
When Rhea's blood-stained race, in the great earth