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The Letter of Aristeas 8:11

And he replied, 'By observing that the human race increases and is born with much trouble and great suffering: wherefore you must not lightly punish or inflict torments upon them, since you know that the life of men is made up of pains and penalties. For if you understood everything you would be filled with pity, for God also it pitiful!

The Letter of Aristeas 8:22

For the mind mostly busies itself in sleep with the same things with, which it occupies itself when awake. And he who has all his thoughts and actions set towards the noblest ends establishes himself in righteousness both when he is awake and when he is asleep. Wherefore. you must be steadfast in the constant discipline of self.

4 Maccabees 2:31

Wherefore the divine justice was kindled to anger and brought Antiochus himself as an enemy against us.

Odes of Solomon 7:12

Wherefore He pitied me in His abundant grace: and granted me to ask from Him and to receive from His sacrifice:

2 Baruch 10:9

Ye husbandmen, sow not again; And, O earth, wherefore give; you your harvest fruits? Keep within you the sweets of your sustenance.

2 Baruch 19:1

And He answered and said unto me: 'Wherefore at that time he appointed for them a covenant and said: "Behold I have placed before you life and death," And he called heaven and earth to witness against them.

2 Baruch 75:7

But if, indeed, we who exist know wherefore we have come, And submit ourselves to Him who brought us out of Egypt, We shall come again and remember those things which have passed, And shall rejoice regarding that which has been.

2 Baruch 75:8

But if now we know not wherefore we have come, And recognize not the principate of Him who brought us up out of Egypt, We shall come again and seek after those things which have been now, And be grieved with pain because of those things which have befallen.'

2 Baruch 78:4

Wherefore I have been the more careful to leave you the words of this epistle before I die, that you may be comforted regarding the evils which have come upon you, and that you may be grieved also regarding the evil that has befallen your brethren; and again, also, that you may justify His judgment which

Psalms of Solomon 4:1

Wherefore sittest thou, O profane (man), in the council of the pious, Seeing that thy heart is far removed from the Lord, Provoking with transgressions the God of Israel

The Sibylline Oracles 3:693

And wherefore bringest thou thy foolish gifts

The Sibylline Oracles 14:9

Wherefore, instead of good works and just thoughts,

Ethiopian Orthodox Broader Canon

Testament of Our Lord, Book I 3:1

And Jesus answered and said:—In the time when I was in the world, I spoke unto you before I should be glorified, of signs that the end is near, thus:—that there shall be on earth famines and pestilences,’ tumults, and commotions, risings of nations against nations, and those other things whereof I have told you But I commanded you to watch and pray. And now hear, ye children of the light; for My Father who hath sent Me to His inheritance hath predeterminedin His foreknowledge," that in the last days, out of the latest generation,” there should be vessels 18 [of grace] holy, and honoured, and elect. Wherefore I make known unto you exactly [what are] the things which are about to be, and when he shall arise, that Son of Perdition, the Enemy, the 1 Adversary,” and what he is like.