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

Ay, and more than that, through the moral beauty and goodness of her sons and their obedience to the Law, her maternal love for them was made stronger.

O mother, who now knew sharper pangs than the pangs of labour! O woman, alone among women, the fruit of whose womb was perfect religion!

O woman, nobler to resist than men, and braver than warriors to endure!

O woman, nobler to resist than men, and braver than warriors to endure!

'Ah, thrice wretched me, and more than thrice wretched! Seven children have I borne and am left childless!

O mother, warrior of God in the cause of religion, old and a woman, thou didst both defeat the tyrant by thy endurance, and wast found stronger than a man, in deeds as well as words.

With these words the mother of the seven encouraged every single one of her sons to die rather than transgress the ordinance of God; they themselves also knowing well that men dying for God live unto God, as live Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the patriarchs.

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

For one hour of thy Faith is more precious than all days and years.

He who created wisdom is wiser than His works:

Because it was not permitted to them to loose its seal: for the power that was over the seal was greater than they.

And they sought for my death and did not find it: for I was older than the memorial of them;

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

More than shelter was He to me, and more than foundation.

More than shelter was He to me, and more than foundation.

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

'Have you seen all that this people are doing to Me, that the evils which these two tribes which remained have done are greater than (those of) the ten tribes which were carried away captive?

"Blessed are you more than we who live."

For what advantage is there in this, or what (evil), worse than what' we have seen befall us, are we to expect to see?

'Therefore, behold! the days come, And the times shall hasten more than the former, And the seasons shall speed on more than those that are past, And the years shall pass more quickly than the present (years).

'Therefore, behold! the days come, And the times shall hasten more than the former, And the seasons shall speed on more than those that are past, And the years shall pass more quickly than the present (years).

'Therefore, behold! the days come, And the times shall hasten more than the former, And the seasons shall speed on more than those that are past, And the years shall pass more quickly than the present (years).

For if there were this life only, which belongs to all men, nothing could be more bitter than this.

For there will be a greater trial than these two tribulations when the Mighty One will renew His creation.

And after these things a fourth kingdom will arise, whose power will be harsh and evil far beyond those which were before it, and it will rule many times as the forests on the plain, and it will hold fast for times, and will exalt itself more than the cedars of Lebanon.

But many shall then assuredly weep, Yea, over the living more than over the dead.'

For the aspect of those who now act wickedly shall become worse than it is, as they shall suffer torment.

When therefore they see those, over whom they are now exalted, (but) who shall then be exalted and glorified more than they, they shall respectively be transformed, the latter into the splendor of angels, and the former shall yet more waste away in wonder at the visions and in the beholding of the forms.

Now this was done twelve times, but the black were always more numerous than the bright.

And it came to pass at the end of the cloud, that lo! it rained black waters, and they were darker than had been all those waters that were before, and fire was mingled with them, and where those waters descended, they wrought devastation and destruction.

For what am I amongst men, Or why am I reckoned amongst those who are more excellent than I, That I have heard all these marvelous things from the Most High, And numberless promises from Him who created me?

What therefore can be blacker or darker than these things?

'For the last waters which you have seen which were darker than all that were before them, those which were after the twelfth number, which were collected together, belong to the whole world.

For to you and to your fathers the Lord gave a law more excellent than to all peoples.

'The Most High hath made you that you should be higher than all birds.

For if you so do these things, He will continually remember you, He who always promised on our behalf to those who were more excellent than we, that He will never forget or forsake us, but with much mercy will gather together again those who were dispersed.

For assuredly I know that (the consolation of) the inhabitants of Zion consoles you: so far as you knew that it was prospered (your consolation) was greater than the tribulation which you endured in having to depart from it.

And I had not long to wait before God showed me the insolent one Slain on the mountains of Egypt, Esteemed of less account than the least on land and sea;

His words (shall be) more refined than costly gold, the choicest; In the assemblies he will judge the peoples, the tribes of the sanctified.

For they were much more violent than those,

Not seeing with their eyes, more blind than moles,

More terrible than crawling poisonous beasts,

Rather than sacrifice. The naked clothe,

More hurtful than the leopards and the wolves

Dead bodies more in number than the sand.

And see all things more wisely than all men;

More radiant than stars and sun and moon,

And silver; for than these did mortals choose

Than this one, o'er the Romans, not one hour,

And Persians thinking themselves more than men.

Younger, but than his brother much more strong,

Still worse than that of leopards and of wolves;

What is stronger than wine foaming in the press?

More than all watchfulness watch thy mouth, and over what thou hearest harden thy heart, for a word is (like) a bird, and when he has sent it forth

is the ambush of the mouth than the ambush of fighting. Suppress not the word of a king: let it be a healing to thy brother. Soft is the

speech of a king, (but) it is sharper and stronger than a two-edged knife. Behold before thee something hard: in presence of a king delay not.

Swifter is his anger than lightning. Do thou take heed to thyself. Let him not show it at thy words, that thou go away before thy time.

I have tasted even the bitter sloe, and the taste was strong, but there is nothing which is more bitter than poverty. Soft is the tongue of a king

I have lifted sand and carried salt, and there is nothing which is heavier than debt.

I have lifted chaff and taken up crumbs, and there is nothing which is lighter than (to be) a sojourner.

If thou hast bent thy bow and shot thy arrow at one who is more righteous than thou, it is a sin in the sight of God.

With one that is higher than thou, do not go (?) to quarrelling (?).

With one that is a noble (?) and stronger than thou, contend not, for he will take

Let him who is instructed with all care and heareth the perfectness of the Gospel, be instructed not less than three years, and if he, loving, strive to be baptized, let him [then] be baptized.: But if he be quiet and meek and earnest, and persevering and abiding with him who teacheth him, with labour, with watching, with confession, with subjection, and with prayers, and [if] he desire to be baptized sooner, let him be baptized. For it is not the time that is considered, but the will of faith.”

After the catechumens pray, let the bishop or presbyter, laying on them a hand, say the prayer of the laying on of the hand of catechumens: PRAYER OF CATECHUMENS O God, who dost send thunderings and preparest lightnings, who hast founded the heaven and established the earth, and enlightenest the faithful and convertest them that err; who hast quickened those who were dead and hast given hope to those who [were] without hope, and hast freed the universe from error by the coming down of Thy Only-begotten Son Jesus Christ; hear us, O Lord, and give to these souls intelli- gence, perfectness, undoubting faith, knowledge of the truth, that they may be in a degree higher than this, through the holy Name of Thee and of Thy beloved Son Jesus, our Lord, through whom [be] praise and might to Thee with the Holy Ghost, both now and alway and for ever and ever. Amen. After this let them be dismissed. If any one, being a catechumen, be apprehended for My Name and be judged with tortures, and hasten and press forward to receive the laver, let not the shepherd hesitate, but let him give [it] to him. But if he suffer violence and be killed, not having received the laver, let him not be anxious. For, having been baptized in his own blood, [he is] justified