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O my boy! I brought thee up with the best upbringing and trained thee like a tall cedar; and thou hast twisted and bent me.

O my boy! it was my hope concerning thee that thou wouldst build me a fortified castle, that I might be concealed from my enemies in it, and thou didst become to me like one burying in the depth of the earth; but the Lord took pity on me and delivered me from thy cunning.

And when Nadan heard this speech from his uncle Haiqar, he said: 'O my uncle! deal with me according to thy knowledge, and forgive me my sins, for who is there who hath sinned like me, or who is there who forgives like thee?

And when Nadan heard this speech from his uncle Haiqar, he said: 'O my uncle! deal with me according to thy knowledge, and forgive me my sins, for who is there who hath sinned like me, or who is there who forgives like thee?

And Haiqar said to him, 'O my boy! thou art like the tree which was fruitless beside the water, and its master was fain to cut it down, and it said to him, "Remove me to another place, and if I do not bear fruit, cut me down."

And when Nadan heard that speech from his uncle Haiqar, he swelled up immediately and became like a blown-out bladder.

(And even before this time large numbers of Jews had come into Egypt with the Persian, and in an earlier period still others had been sent to Egypt to help Psammetichus in his campaign against the king of the Ethiopians. But these were nothing like so numerous as the captives whom Ptolemy the son of Lagus transported.)

And under the stones which had been arranged to represent eggs the artists made a crown containing all kinds of fruits, having at its top clusters of grapes and ears of corn, dates also and apples, and pomegranates and the like, conspicuously arranged.

And next to the 'maeander' there was placed a wonderful piece of network, which made the centre of the table appear like a rhomboid in shape, and on it a crystal and amber, as it is called, had been wrought, which produced an incomparable impression on the beholders.

They made the feet of the table with heads like lilies, so that they seemed to be like lilies bending down beneath the table, and the parts which were visible represented leaves which stood upright.

They made the feet of the table with heads like lilies, so that they seemed to be like lilies bending down beneath the table, and the parts which were visible represented leaves which stood upright.

And they made the foot appear like ivy growing out of the stone, interwoven with akanthus and surrounded with a vine which encircled it with clusters of grapes, which were worked in stones, up to the top of the foot.

And they made the top of the table in three parts like a triptychon, and they were so fitted and dovetailed together with spigots along the whole breadth of the work, that the meeting of the joints could not be seen or even discovered.

Upon this there was a mosaic, worked in the form of a rhombus, having a net-like appearance and reaching right up to the brim.

The river like the Nile rises in harvest-time and irrigates a large portion of the land.

For the inventors simply took certain objects already created and by combining them together, showed that they possessed a fresh utility: they did not themselves create the substance of the thing, and so it is a vain and foolish thing for people to make gods of men like themselves.

Why need we speak of other infatuated people, Egyptians and the like, who place their reliance upon wild beasts and most kinds of creeping things and cattle, and worship them, and offer sacrifices to them both while living and when dead?

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.

And it is for this reason that a like practice is declared unclean in men.

The king complimented this man, too, upon his answer and asked another, how he could have friends like-minded with himself?

That is to say, if Reason is proved to control the passions adverse to temperance, gluttony and lust, it is also clearly shown to be lord over the passions, like malevolence, opposed to justice, and over those opposed to manliness, namely rage and pain and fear.

But he endured the anguish, and despised the compulsion, and bore up under the torments, and like a brave athlete taking punishment, the old man outwore his tormentors.

FOR the Reason of our father Eleazar, like a fine steersman steering the ship of sanctity on the sea of the passions, though buffeted by the threats of the tyrant and swept by the swelling waves of the tortures, never shifted for one moment the helm of sanctity until he sailed into the haven of victory over death.

And yet most wonderful of all, he, being an old man, with the sinews of his body unstrung and his muscles relaxed and his nerves weakened, grew a young man again in the spirit of his Reason and with Isaac-like Reason turned the hydra-headed torture to impotence.

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:

But when they heard his noble resolve in answer to their question, 'Would he eat rather than he tortured?' these panther-like beasts tore at his sinews with claws of iron, and rent away all the flesh from his cheeks, and tore off the skin from his head.

As he spake thus the guards bound him and brought him before the catapult; and they tied him thereto on his knees, and, fastening them there with iron clamps, they wrenched his loins over the rolling 'wedge' so that he was completely curled back like a scorpion and every joint was disjointed.

Art thou not ashamed, being a man, O wretch with the heart of a wild beast, to take men of like feelings with thyself, made from the same elements, and tear out their tongues, and scourge and torture them in this manner?

'Let us die like brothers, O brethren, for the Law.

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.

For as the seven days of the creation of the world do enring religion, so did the youths choir-like enring their sevenfold companionship, and made the terror of the tortures of no account.

But she, the mother of those young men, with a soul like Abraham, was not moved from her purpose by her affection for her children.

She saw the flesh of her sons being consumed in the fire, and the extremities of their hands and feet scattered on the ground, and the flesh-covering, torn off from their heads right to their cheeks, strewn about like masks.

For when he failed utterly to constrain the people of Jerusalem to live like Gentiles and abandon the customs of our fathers, he thereupon left Jerusalem and marched away against the Persians.

The Lord is on my head like a crown, and I shall not be without Him.

For it is not like a withered crown which buddeth not: but thou livest upon my head, and thou hast blossomed upon my head.

He became like me, in order that I might receive Him:

He was reckoned like myself in order that I might put Him on;

Like my nature He became that I might learn Him and like my form, that I might not turn back from Him:

Like my nature He became that I might learn Him and like my form, that I might not turn back from Him:

And they shall bring their songs, and their heart shall be like the day: and like the excellent beauty of the Lord their pleasant song:

And they shall bring their songs, and their heart shall be like the day: and like the excellent beauty of the Lord their pleasant song:

And I became like the land which blossoms and rejoices in its fruits:

And the Lord was like the sun shining on the face of the land;

And everything became like a relic of thyself, and memorial for ever of thy faithful works.

And like the flow of waters flows truth from my mouth, and my lips show forth His fruit.

For the swiftness of the Word is inexpressible, and like its expression is its swiftness and force;

And ignorance appeared like a blind man; and like the foam of the sea,

And ignorance appeared like a blind man; and like the foam of the sea,

For His thought is not like the thought of the world nor the thought of the flesh, nor like them that serve carnally.

For His thought is not like the thought of the world nor the thought of the flesh, nor like them that serve carnally.

And His thought was like a letter; His will descended from on high, and it was sent like an arrow which is violently shot from the bow:

And His thought was like a letter; His will descended from on high, and it was sent like an arrow which is violently shot from the bow:

The birds dropped their wings and all creeping things died in their holes: and the abysses were opened which had been hidden; and they cried to the Lord like women in travail:

But I was despised and rejected in the eye of many: and I was in their eyes like lead,

Like a river which has an abundant fountain, and flows to the help of them that seek it. Hallelujah.

My heart is delighted and exults: like the babe who exults in the womb of his mother:

And they came round me like mad dogs, who ignorantly attack their masters,

And I did not perish, for I was not their brother nor was my birth like theirs.

And the Lord overthrew my enemy by His word: and he became like the stubble which the wind carries away;

But I stood unshaken like a firm rock which is beaten by the waves and endures.

And I was carried like a child by his mother: and He gave me milk, the dew of the Lord:

For according to the greatness of the Most High, so He made me: and like His own newness He renewed me; and He anointed me from His own perfection:

And I became one of His Neighbours; and my mouth was opened, like a cloud of dew,

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!

Like the arm of the bridegroom over the bride,